On Wed, 2008-07-16 at 17:34 +0200, Sascha Peilicke wrote: > > 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, ...).
wrong. cairo has an internal fixed point path and floating point API, and has had it for quite a while now. embedded devices have been using cairo since release 1.2.0 or 1.4.0 - and now we are at 1.6.x. ciao, Emmanuele. -- Emmanuele Bassi, W: http://www.emmanuelebassi.net B: http://log.emmanuelebassi.net _______________________________________________ gnome-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-devel-list
