On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 09:22:05PM +0100, Peter Clifton wrote: > Partly, but partly not.. there is no reason someone like yourself could > not build cairo etc., if you wanted it. The main reason it wouldn't be > viable would be if you were running on hardware which isn't fast enough > to be usable with that level of graphics quality. (Although yes, cairo > probably isn't the fastest way of rendering a given graphic, its just > very convenient from a coding point of view). > > Limited by hardware is what I meant by lowest common denominator. > Avoiding things like GTK by choice is just that, your choice, and comes > more under the m-r-c definition.
If I am not mistaken, der Mouse uses 8 bit graphics on a SS20 running NetBSD. At least, I think that is what he said once, and I still saw him reporting bugs about software not working with cg6 cards as of late last year. And personally, I applaud him for doing that. I wish I had the patience to do that. Although I'd have a very hard time giving up true color. _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user