GTK+ to Use Cairo Vector Engine

Eugenia writes "GTK+ is now the first major toolkit to have added support for the Cairo 2D vector graphics library, which is designed to provide high-quality display and print output. GTK+ project leader Owen Taylor has commented on the X/GTK integration of Cairo. To put it in perspective, Cairo is similar to OSX's Quartz engine and Longhorn's Avalon (PPT analysis). The 3D hardware accelerated image compositing OpenGL part of Cairo will be provided by the Glitz library. Cairo is 'possible' to be part of Qt 4.x at a later date, according to Trolltech's Qt 4 technical preview document."

Comments

Re:Why give up bitmaps

[Anonymous Coward]

"Bitmaps should be enough for anybody" -- slashdot, 2005

Re:Bloat

[Anonymous Coward]

I could use a whole article devoted to generating a KDE v Gnome flamewar.

Well, okay then: the

But somehow, I don't think just one article quite captures the subtleties of the debate?

Re:Open Source 3D

[bman08]

bullshit! fuck you and your zealot distro. I've been feeding my family gentoo for six months, fucker. Listen asshole, my car runs, pollution free, on gentoo and my home is heated same. As soon as it finishes compiling my rocket, Gentoo is going to take me to mars so you and your faggot ass free only distro can enjoy this miserable blue rock until the sun explodes douchebag. You'll be dead someday, but gentoo promises to finally fulfill the dream of eternal life, retard. Right now, while I'm typing this, gentoo is turning lead into gold...

shit. etc-update just overwrote all my config files. I'll be back in week or two, asshole. Then you'll be sorry.