Re: KDE and Gnome

[Sean Middleditch <elanthis awesomeplay com>]

On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 09:23, Julien Olivier wrote:

> > You are so over-simplifying it's not even funny.  What happens when
> > toolkits move to Cairo for rendering?
> >   What happens when toolkits want
> > to accelerate rendering beyond blitting some pre-made cheesy pixmap? 
> > Most theme engines do a lot of very customized drawing with no pixmaps
> > in sight, and that's a good thing.
> > 
> 
> If some toolkits don't want to use bitmap widgets, that's a problem.
> This solution would of course only work for _bitmap_ themes, which are
> managed by both QT and GTK currently. Another solution would be to use
> SVG themes only but, of course, that would have a negative impact on
> performance.

A huge number of themes don't use bitmaps.  A good number of the popular
ones these days use almost none, if any.  Bitmaps aren't a solution -
that's why there _are_ different engine backends in GTK, and not just a
single built-in pixmap based engine.  If you're theme library can only
handle pixmaps, it's not worth the effort, imo.

And that's only talking about Qt/GTK.

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Sean Middleditch <elanthis awesomeplay com>
AwesomePlay Productions, Inc.