Re: [Inkscape-devel] Cairo plan? (was Re: Xara and Inkscape comparison on Linux Action Show)

On 1/22/07, Bryce Harrington <bryce@...961...> wrote:

As I understand things, Cairo in and of itself isn't enough - it just renders stuff. What we need in addition to Cairo is a Gtk canvas layer, that provides an interactive way of interfacing to the renderer.

What's wrong with sp-canvas? It's well tested and is being increasingly optimized, and its overhead is minimal anyway compared to the renderer. Yet replacing the canvas will be much more difficult than the renderer, because the canvas and SPCanvasItems are the foundation of a lot of our codebase. So I'm not in favor of replacing it, unless some very good reasons are given. We just need a much faster way to convert shapes into pixels, but from that point on we can handle it just fine.