On Mon, 2002-04-15 at 17:31, Martin Sevior wrote: > I read the discussion about the general escher drawing layer. I can't help > but think it would be too much overhead for many apps. Not just in the > sense of being big and slow but also in the sense of taking too long to > get right. The next itteration of abiword will add lots of high level > features that do not need anything as sophisticated as an escher drawing > layer. I would hate to see us delayed by diverting resources to build that > or worse being delayed while some high level feature we would never used > is implemented. I'm not so sure about that. We could then have svg graphics as default (even if we'd have to stick a bitmap on an svg) image rendered all completely mixed up with the font renderer. Other stuff too, like embedded apps that would use a renderer, could be joined into a much lighter and integrated office suite. hugs, rui -- + No matter how much you do, you never do enough -- unknown + Whatever you do will be insignificant, | but it is very important that you do it -- Ghandi + So let's do it...?
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