bulia byak wrote:
On 2/25/07, Bryce Harrington <bryce@...961...> wrote:
We'd been assuming previously that a cairo conversion was going to be a major project already - it was only recently that we got hope that it could be a quick switch. So we had been planning on focusing 0.46 on prepatory refactoring, to get the codebase into a better shape where all-or-nothing switches like cairo could be done a bit easier.
Some of the preparatory work I already started doing, such as planning to eliminate non-premultiplied mode (which cairo does not use, yet PNG and on-screen icons must get non-premultiplied data).
I would hate to see this go, as it can give nicer results in some cases (it's at least one reason why export often looks better). Of course there would be less need for it if it was possible to use 16bits per color. And if it would be the only thing against Cairo, well, don't let it stop you, but if it would be possible to keep this possibility with Cairo, that would be fabulous.