On Jul 15, 2008, at 6:28 AM, Koen van der Drift wrote: > > On Jul 14, 2008, at 10:21 PM, Daniel Macks wrote: > >> Thanks to the hard work of countless developers and testers, the >> "pangocairo" branch has now been merged back into the main distro for >> fink's "unstable" trees for 10.4 (and 10.5). > > Good work, I guess :) I have been reading a lot about "pangocairo", > and I know it has to do with graphics. But I don't remember reading > about what it exactly is and why it is better than what we had before. > Could someone explain that? > > thanks, > > - Koen.
I'll take a stab at this. Pango does font rendering and Cairo does 2-D graphics rendering. In version 2.8, gtk+ (gimp tool kit, the utility which does nearly all the graphics rendering in gnome) switched to using cairo for its rendering. Because of intertwined dependencies, fink couldn't upgrade gtk+2 until it could go 'all-at-once'. The old fink had gtk+2 version 2.6.10. It now has 2.12.10. Not having 'pangocairo branch' essentially froze gnome progress in fink to things almost 2 years old. gtkprint, which has almost entirely replaced gnomeprint in current gnome development, works much better on my mac, and requires newer Gnome. Dave -- David Reiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.devel
