Re: GUADEC Results

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Michael Meeks <michael ximian com> writes:
> On 14 Apr 2001, Lauris Kaplinski wrote:
> > > We'd like a Java2D-style vector API in GDK, which would
> > > transparently use Xrender as appropriate to speed things up. When
> > > hacking on this sort of thing, it'd be valuable to think of it as a
> > > prototype of the GDK solution I'd guess.
> 
> 	Also, personaly I prefer an 'expose'->'render' model rather than a
> 'auxiliary model'->'demand rendered' model of rendering. Naturaly this
> needs some extra cunning, but having multiple models of the displayed data
> sucks, and forcing a model on an application sucks too for most things
> IMHO. AFAIR Java2D is the latter sucking model.
> 

Seems sane. By "Java2D-style" I really just mean "similar in scope"
rather than "similar in API" - if we knew the right API we'd be
halfway to having the work already done. ;-)

Havoc