Re: [gnome-flashback] metacity and gtk3

[Stefano Karapetsas <stefano karapetsas com>]

Hi,

> the fact is that I am too switching to cairo as well. Actually I don't
> know if there is a better/easier way since Gdk drawings do not exist in
> the new gtk/gdk.

>     Nice to hear that. After more deep looking at Mutter changes, it got
>     ported from Gdk drawing to Cairo at the time of Gtk3 switch (which is
>     three times larger than the Gtk3 switch itself), and also it is no
>     longer compatible with Gtk2.
>
>     So if you will do it in a better way than Mutter did it, it will be
>     appreciated. Feel free to take patches that are in my branch.

I can confirm Cairo is needed for drawing with GTK3 [1].

[1] 
https://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/3.10/gtk-migrating-2-to-3.html#id-1.6.3.3.8