Re: rendering-cleanup

[Allin Cottrell <cottrell wfu edu>]

On Sun, 8 Aug 2010, Emmanuele Bassi wrote:

> On Sun, 2010-08-08 at 10:19 -0400, Allin Cottrell wrote:
> > On Sat, 7 Aug 2010, Benjamin Otte wrote:
> >
> > > my rendering-cleanup work is pretty much done now...
> > >
> > > I'm still in the process of updating the documentation (read: it's
> > > missing stuff), so if anything is unclear for you, please poke me on
> > > IRC or by mail and I'll try to clarify it. In the meantime you want to
> > > read http://blogs.gnome.org/otte/2010/07/27/rendering-cleanup/ That
> > > page will become the basis of what will be the porting documentation.
> >
> > Thanks for this. It would be very useful for app programmers if
> > the "drawing area" unit in gtk-demo could be updated to use cairo
> > rather than the old gdk drawing mechanism -- particularly for
> > those of us who never truly understood the gdk mechanism but
> > managed to get by via copy-paste-and-modify from known good
> > sources!
>
> Benjamin already did the conversion to Cairo for the drawing-area
> example in gtk-demo. :-)
>
> the relevant commits are:
>
>   760ba34bd868c115fda9c4dcefa9cc086e247413
>   188884a9b19697f2902b82baad17e42284086b07

Excellent. I grabbed the git source and am happy.

Allin Cottrell