On May 20, 2010, at 11:23 AM, Axel Simon wrote: > Ok, sorry, I though I did add some functions with this effect. I applied and > pushed your patch! There was one patch which added the screenGetRGBAColormap function, which you applied. Then shortly after that one I found the pixbufRender function was missing which made that actually useful.
> The demo is quite cute. We should add that before the release. Sure. I also have a more complete "free the fish" clone since I have little better to to with my time. > Are you using pixbuf independently from Gtk? Is it worthwhile for us to > investigate if we can separate the pixbuf package from Gtk? This might be > tricky, but if this is useful in the long run, we should do it now! I'm not using it, but I could see some situations where you would want that. > The interoperability between Cairo and Pixbuf is somewhat complicated and > limited. I tried to implement some functions which let you use a pixbuf for > cairo rendering but it turns out that both have completely incompatible > binary formats for images which meant that my functions were useless. > > But it might be possible to render text with pango. > > I'm slightly weary of the many types that pixbuf uses from Gtk. Currently > everything is rather mixed into the Pixbuf module. > > Do you thing the separation of pixbuf into it's own package is worthwhile? > It might be useful to somebody if it's possible. GdkPixbuf is only sort of independent from Gtk. I'm not sure how many people actually use it without Gtk. - Matt ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Gtk2hs-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gtk2hs-devel
