Gerrit P. Haase wrote:
Hmm, this is the first time I hear about glitz and cairo. Is it used
instead of X11?
Not exactly. cairo[1] is a cross-platform 2D graphics rendering engine
with support for multiple backends. glitz is a wrapper for the various
types of OpenGL APIs.
[1] http://cairographics.org/introduction
cairo is now used by GNOME, and particularly pango and gtk+, instead of
libart_lgpl2 and libgnomecanvas2, which are being deprecated (but need
to stay for compatibility), and to a certain degree, gdk-pixbuf.
Anyway, are you ready to consider bumping glib/gtk+ to 2.8? Let me
know, and I'll ITP glitz and cairo.
Yaakov
