GTK+ to Use Cairo Vector Engine

Posted by CowboyNeal on Friday February 4, 2005 @08:31PM from the pretty-pictures dept.

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."

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real news please? by Anonymous Coward · 2005-02-04 22:14 · Score: 5, Insightful

did someone actually read the _20 lines_ post made by Owen Taylor? He just commited gtk dependancy on cairo in the cvs repository, but that's all. Nothing's working on Cairo yet, not even font support.
I'm really not a fan of Windows, but they've been showing Avalon demos for a while now, so could you please at least wait for the Gtk team to reach a similar level before comparing their work to Microsoft's one, or Apple's(!)?
Now, if we are to speak about the possibilities offered by such technologies, I'd like to know your opinion on the topic guys.