Xr Renamed to Cairo

Posted by CowboyNeal on Saturday August 30, 2003 @05:46AM 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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Re:Dumb name of the month by Mooncaller · 2003-08-30 06:07 · Score: 0, Redundant

Whys it dumb? Chi = X, Rho = r. Together they are pronounced Cairo.
Chigamma? by allanc · 2003-08-30 08:19 · Score: 0, Redundant

The greek letters that look like XP, Chi and Rho, would be pronounced Cairo.

But this was Xr. So shouldn't it be pronounced Chigamma?

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Not really a rename, is it? by fishbowl · 2003-08-30 08:42 · Score: 0, Redundant

XR (or XP) can be read as "Chi Rho" ...

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