Re: Gtk && Xara

[Matthias Clasen <mclasen redhat com>]

On Tue, 2005-10-18 at 11:08 -0700, Joshua A. Andler wrote:
> Colossus wrote:
>
> > Tomaz Canabrava wrote:
> >
> > > Since the Cairo rendering engine is *SLOW* and the Xara Extreme is being
> > > ported to linux, with the full API,
> > > i think thatÂs a good idia to port the Gtk engine to use XaraÂs 
> > > System since
> >
> >
> > Who told you Cairo is slow in comparison to Xara Extreme ?
> > Xara Extreme is not GPL so no port is possible.
> A) http://xaraxtreme.org/about/ - Scroll down to the charts. That's what 
> shows the difference in speed. Plus with a comparison of Inkscape (with 
> a renderer that is faster than Cairo), Illustrator, and Xara I can tell 
> you is that their charts aren't skewed. It's just that fast.
> B) The Xara codebase isn't available yet, as they're still working on 
> porting it. However, it will be available under the GPL in a few weeks 
> or so (they've already committed to it and we've been talking to the 
> Xara CEO on the Inkscape devel-list about it).
> C) The Cairo guys and Xara guys will probably be talking a bit in the 
> future as well. If Cairo's canvas can get optimized to even a half the 
> speed of Xara's canvas, it'll be happy time for everyone. =D

This whole discussion is pointless, since GTK+ is LGPL, not GPL...