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Re: why cairo and the pdf imaging model?
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Banlu Kemiyatorn |
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Re: why cairo and the pdf imaging model? |
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Sat, 22 Nov 2003 02:46:40 +0700 |
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Rogelio M.Serrano Jr. wrote:
So thats why cairo works with with X. Cairo needs a windowing system.
I was
thinking of making a window system running on opengl. It is more of a
reimplementation
of Mark Thomas`s Y. It is very similar to x so it would be
straightforward to "hack up" the
x backend or cairo to run on y.
I was reading his paper but I didn't really like it though. One reason
is its providing
server widgets and I don't see a good reason to have them unneccessarily
loaded.
cairo-back could then run on 'x derivative' and then 'x derivative'
could then run on
fbdri. cairo does not even need to know it is using opengl or should it?.
Cairo has layer in itself for allowing backend implementation.
http://www.cs.umu.se/~c99pnn/twiki/bin/view/Main/Screenshots
This is the shot of Cairo working on OpenGL, it was just annouced today.