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Xr Renamed to Cairo

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the pharaohs-and-pixels dept.

Charles Goodwin writes "Xr, the vector graphics extension for XFree86 that Keith Packard, Carl Worth, and a few others have been hard at work on, has been renamed and is now officially called Cairo. Keith and Carl recently gave a detailed presentation on Cairo (then known as Xr) which should be a useful read for those wishing to understand it a little better. There is already a useful Gtk+ rendering backend that uses Cairo, as well as an SVG test suite. This, along with Gnome2's subtle adoption of SVG and the inception of Xouvert (which now has goals for both the short term and long term, and an initial plan which includes coexisting with XFree86), spells a bright future for the eye candy of an X desktop."

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  1. great by SHEENmaster · · Score: 3, Funny

    but when do we get an ASCII renderer for it?

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    You can't judge a book by the way it wears its hair.
  2. Cairo? Bill Gates will be contacting them. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    This is the code name for Windows NT. This is a blantant and illegal DMCA violation, and a dilution and sullying of Windows NT's good name. They will be served.

  3. That spam is actually on topic by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    > heh, there's even a funny post in xsvg archives
    >
    > [xsvg] Viagra and Diet Pills prescribed online!

    This is actually on topic for XSVG. Viagra is supposed to help men "scale" up while "Diet Pills" are for people to "scale down".

  4. Re:Well now, that's just great. by Squareball · · Score: 3, Funny

    Maybe you'll get your alpha-blending from Cairo?

    Importing alpha-blending from Cairo is WAY to expensive. Just try getting it through customs!

  5. Re:Not really a rename, is it? by Fnkmaster · · Score: 3, Funny
    Very interesting, I never thought of that. And IANAPOS (I am not a professor of symbology), but "chi rho" was the classical symbolic representation of the name of Christ (written in the Greek as "XP" of course, and often rendered with the P superimposed on top of and through the middle of the X). In Greek, of course, chi and rho form the first two letters of "Christos", or Christ.


    Makes you wonder what that "XP" in Windows XP and Athlong XP really stands for. A plot by the religious right to infiltrate Microsoft? Hmmm...