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Re: Emacs, QT and Cairo
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David Engster |
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Re: Emacs, QT and Cairo |
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Wed, 14 Jul 2010 11:41:50 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) |
YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu writes:
>>>>>> On Tue, 13 Jul 2010 16:02:02 -0300, Stephen Eilert <address@hidden> said:
>
>> What about exposing Cairo bindings (GTK already uses it, so it is
>> not exactly a new dependency, only the headers) to elisp so that we
>> can actually draw a prettier user interface? Things like real lines
>> instead of "-" for the modeline (and a better looking modeline
>> itself), better looking widgets (the horrendous fake buttons created
>> by customize, for example), better fringe layer or even, say, an UML
>> mode with good-looking classes. And perhaps a cute speedbar.
>
> An alternative way to do some of them would be generating and
> rendering SVG images dynamically. That is possible even now, and more
> standard and less platform specific than cairo bindings. An
> interesting example is given in
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-emacs/2010-05/msg00521.html
Yes, one could probably create buttons and stuff like that with SVG. But
the way images are handled in Emacs make this very limited. I'm not even
talking about eye candy here, but very basic things. For example,
drawing a faint line at column 80, like this:
http://blogs.sun.com/tor/resource/formatting-before.png
I think it is currently not possible to do stuff like this?
-David
- Re: Emacs and Gnome Canvas, (continued)
- Re: Emacs and Gnome Canvas (was: Emacs, QT and Cairo), Dirk-Jan C . Binnema, 2010/07/15
- Re: Emacs and Gnome Canvas, Óscar Fuentes, 2010/07/15
- Re: Emacs and Gnome Canvas, Bruce Stephens, 2010/07/15
- Re: Emacs and Gnome Canvas, Andy Wingo, 2010/07/15
- Re: Emacs, QT and Cairo, Stefan Monnier, 2010/07/27
- Re: Emacs, QT and Cairo, Chad Brown, 2010/07/27
- Re: Emacs, QT and Cairo, Eli Zaretskii, 2010/07/27
Re: Emacs, QT and Cairo Was: Re: Efforts to attract more users?, YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu, 2010/07/14
- Re: Emacs, QT and Cairo,
David Engster <=
- Re: Emacs, QT and Cairo, Jan Djärv, 2010/07/14
- RE: Emacs, QT and Cairo, Drew Adams, 2010/07/14
- Re: Emacs, QT and Cairo, David Engster, 2010/07/14
- Re: Emacs, QT and Cairo, joakim, 2010/07/14
Re: Emacs, QT and Cairo Was: Re: Efforts to attract more users?, Chong Yidong, 2010/07/14
Re: Emacs, QT and Cairo Was: Re: Efforts to attract more users?, Andrew W. Nosenko, 2010/07/15