Re: Cairo based engine api for GTK+ 3.0

[Thomas Wood <thos gnome org>]

On Jul 13, 2009, at 12:57 AM, Thomas Wood wrote:

> On Thu, 2009-06-18 at 22:45 +0100, Chris Wilson wrote:
> > On Thu, 2009-06-18 at 22:35 +0100, Thomas Wood wrote:
> > > Thanks Chris. Obviously once the API is converted to pass in cairo
> > > contexts, the context creation/destruction will happen outside of  
> > > the
> > > drawing functions.
> >
> > That's a relief. I was thinking to myself that it was a good job I'd
> > just managed to eliminate some overhead from cairo_create()... :-)
>
>
> Just a little up date on this; I've pushed a commit that changes the
> gtk_paint_* API to take a cairo context rather than a GdkWindow. This
> clearly breaks all widgets and so although it compiles, it won't  
> run in
> any shape or form.

Having given this a little further thought, it is clearly unfeasible  
to introduce these type of changes into GTK+ in such a way.  
Therefore, I'm going to concentrate my efforts on creating a new  
project with the goal of providing a separated widget drawing API  
which toolkits such as GTK+ can use. This is largely based on ideas  
in this e-mail from Owen:  http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome- 
themes-list/2008-July/msg00017.html

Regards,

Thomas