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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."
Go get you some.
"Cairo". Doesn't anybody in the Open Source movement have any sense of naming? Go read some Churchill.
Vlad I hope someone comes into your house at night and shits on you while you sleep.
Finally I'll be able to easily create a "virtual mare" for my desktop!
Calling it eye candy? Sorry - I'll go without. Linux desktops are drab and unprofessional looking. They only appeal to the ultra cheap mfs who think they're entitled to something for nothing. I hate people like that. They don't do our world any good at all.
Instead of fixing stuff like the file dialog, scanning gamma, PROPER Screen resolution changing (xrandr is not proper), PCI modem support, support for the 6508 chipset, you write crap like this.
And if this gets modded down (rahter than insightful, which it IS), then the moderators have their heads stuck up their asses further than humanly possible.
I have it on good authority that SCOTT LOCKWOOD III is planning on coming into your house at night and shitting on you while you sleep. Take all neccessary precautions.