On Wed, 2008-07-16 at 17:34 +0200, Sascha Peilicke wrote: > Le Wednesday, 16. July 2008 17:04:43, vous avez écrit : > > I also can't help thinking that, why not put a Qt API on top of GNOME > > Platform? > I think you're meaning the other way around, Gnome on top of Qt, thats the > topic.
No, I exactly meant what I said. > > Believe it or not, Qt is a more polished and integrated toolkit on the > > surface, but we have better and more robust code in the inside. I say > > that from my experience from Pango, having worked with Qt hackers to > > merge the text shaping engine of Qt and Pango into HarfBuzz. We also > > have things like cairo, which is becoming the standard drawing API on > > freedesktop, is designed with API usability in mind from the beginning, > > and is simply too cool to give away. > > I'm not into all the details relating pango and cairo implementation but at > least the latter has a weakness, it has only a double-precision rendering > path, no single-precision and no int-based, which is bad for embedded devices > which have limited capabilities (no floating point unit, ...). That's by design: the current API is more usable than three versions of each function. We are yet to see a report showing that the double precision API is a measurable slowdown for any real use case. And we have people using cairo and profiling it on embedded devices. If you have such results, please share it with us. Cheers, -- behdad http://behdad.org/ "Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." -- Benjamin Franklin, 1759 _______________________________________________ gnome-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-devel-list
