Xr Renamed to Cairo

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."

Comments

Re:This might even turn out better than expected

[justsomebody]

heh, there's even a funny post in xsvg archives

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looks like, the mailing list is on a mailing list:)

Re:Well now, that's just great.

[bhtooefr]

Hmm, I didn't think anything before Windows 2000 supports alpha-blending. You are talking about Windows NT 4 (code name Cairo), right?