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On Fri, 2006-09-01 at 12:21 +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I used clutter via the packages > of Debian unstable. Nice to see it was packaged > so fast! > You can thank Ross Burton for that :) > 1. Clutter is a great idea. The implementation is > a bit rough at this point, but this should be expected > for a 0.1 release. I find the API very well thought too. > Cool. > 2. I am thinking of contributing code but I want to ask > if it is too early. I mean maybe the pace of development > at the moment is too fast, so that outside developers should > not even bother sending patches. It this correct? No, please do send patches ! If 'outside' developer interest was not wanted SVN would not be public, there would be no mailing list etc :) What kind of contributions did you have in mind ? > > Is a 0.2 release close? > Hopefully. > 3. I cannot find any archive of the mailing list. Is there any? See http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.clutter. > > 4. Cairo support would be ok to include in Clutter. I have seen the > code from svn. However I think that most developers would be > happy to have svg support (as far as vector graphics are concerned). > Are there are plans on loading and viewing svg files in clutter? > While cairo graphics are powerful they are a bit low-level I think. > Currently you can use gdkpixbuf to load an SVG into a clutter texture - though this isn't ideal. I believe there is also a cairo based svg rendering lib which could be used with the clutter-cairo module. I am not currently planning on adding a mass of sophisticated drawing primitives into core clutter, I rather depend on things like cairo to do this. The current problem with Cairo is performance - especially as the current clutter-cairo module just munges a cairo image surface into a texture having to un-premultiply RGBA data etc. I originally attempted with Glitz ( which is the ideal solution ) but could not get shared GL contexts between clutter and glitz to play happily :( Id welcome any other attempts at this. -- Matthew -- To unsubscribe send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
