Re: why cairo and the pdf imaging model?

[Rogelio M . Serrano Jr .]

On 2003-11-22 03:46:40 +0800 Banlu Kemiyatorn <id@project-ile.net> 
wrote:

> 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.

We are reimplementing it so we can choose what to take out.

> > 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.

This is so cool! Is that in cvs already?

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