On 8/25/06, Andreas Wagner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
As a sidenote: As you can see I am using the cairo backend. But I have
to specify libgnustep-art for GWorkspace, or else I get a memory access
error ('Speicherzugriffsfehler') and GWorkspace crashes.
Er... I don't think it's recommended to use the cairo backend -- it's
slow and buggy, or at least it was when I had a look 2-3 months ago
(and I don't remember seeing lots of patches flying on svn about it).
Back-art is _much_ faster (particularly wrt Camaelon, and in general
the drawing/compositing operations), and in my opinion is certainly
the backend you should use for étoilé... so if you have it working (as
you use it for GW), why not using it as the general backend for every
apps ?
Note for the cairo backend: while not really usable (imho), it's
"nearly" usable (some graphic bugs with context recopy, partly because
cairo lacks a few things with the used X11 surface, namely, alpha
channel), and with some more effort it will be a very nice backend
(and in the future, it certainly will be the default backend for
gnustep, hopefully, as we could piggyback on cairo's
success+acceleration). I started to fix a few things, but as with
other things, I don't have time to work on it at the moment at all.
Though, I'm curious about your current experience with it, and why you
don't use -art ? (I didn't try with the accelerated cairo backend, so
that's perhaps why my experience with it wasn't great, apart from the
aforementionned bugs)
--
Nicolas Roard
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