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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Re:Correction by TWX · 2005-02-04 21:02 · Score: 0, Offtopic

"Windows 95 = Apple 1984"

yeah, I've had too much to drink tonight. I actually enjoyed watching the Schwarzenegger/Belushi movie Red Heat...

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Must get eyes tested & get out more by Linker3000 · 2005-02-04 22:28 · Score: 0, Offtopic

A quick scan of the headline and I was wondering why they'd use a Casio engine - OS + calculator-style graph graphics in perfect harmony!?

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