On Tue, 2005-10-18 at 11:08 -0700, Joshua A. Andler wrote: > Colossus wrote: > > > Tomaz Canabrava wrote: > > > >> Since the Cairo rendering engine is *SLOW* and the Xara Extreme is being > >> ported to linux, with the full API, > >> i think that´s a good idia to port the Gtk engine to use Xara´s > >> System since > > > > > > Who told you Cairo is slow in comparison to Xara Extreme ? > > Xara Extreme is not GPL so no port is possible. > > > A) http://xaraxtreme.org/about/ - Scroll down to the charts. That's what > shows the difference in speed. Plus with a comparison of Inkscape (with > a renderer that is faster than Cairo), Illustrator, and Xara I can tell > you is that their charts aren't skewed. It's just that fast. > B) The Xara codebase isn't available yet, as they're still working on > porting it. However, it will be available under the GPL in a few weeks > or so (they've already committed to it and we've been talking to the > Xara CEO on the Inkscape devel-list about it). > C) The Cairo guys and Xara guys will probably be talking a bit in the > future as well. If Cairo's canvas can get optimized to even a half the > speed of Xara's canvas, it'll be happy time for everyone. =D >
This whole discussion is pointless, since GTK+ is LGPL, not GPL... _______________________________________________ gtk-app-devel-list mailing list gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list
