On Sun, Jul 09, 2006 at 01:45:52PM +0200, Adib Taraben wrote:
Bryce Harrington schrieb: ...
When we looked at Gtk 2.6 previously, the new features were interesting, but not compelling enough to warrant changing, so we decided to wait until 2.8. 2.8 brings polish to these features, plus brings Cairo - something we are definitely interested in.
Bryce, I do not think that we need to wait for cairo support until we switch to gtk2.8. It is in the most distros already.
That's true, but what I was referring to was more about gtk's support for use of cairo for rendering using gtk widgets (e.g. icons, etc.) Obviously, if we're just after cairo itself, for things like pdf export or SVG rendering in the canvas, that's a separate matter.
There is a patch for pdf export via cairo-pdf that is very usefull and does all the transparency and bitmap stuff that is broken in the current version. What I am trying to find out is: is there any blocker that prevents us from using that patch?
I don't know, but it would be nice to get that patch integrated, if it's acceptable; or if not, to ensure feedback gets back to its author. :-)
Bryce