Re: gtk layering

["Bill Cunningham" <billcm charter net>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael L Torrie" <torriem chem byu edu>
To: <gtk-list gnome org>
Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2006 12:38 PM
Subject: Re: gtk layering


> On Thu, 2006-10-05 at 10:32 -0600, Michael L Torrie wrote:
> > Hopefully we can get some real experts to help improve and clarify it,
> > but here is a little simplified diagram that represents to me how Gtk's
> > layers work on X11:
> > 
> > +-------------------------------+
> > |              Gtk+             |
> > |       +----------+            |
> > |       |  Pango   |            |
> > |       |     +----+------------+
> > |       |     |        Gdk      |
> > +-------+-----+---------+       |
> > |       Cairo           |       |
> > +-----------------------+-------+
> > |             X11               |
> > +-------------------------------+
> > 
> 
> Hmm. From what the pango.org site says, pango only depends on glib
> (which is not shown in this diagram since it's a foundation class
> library), not Gdk or Gtk.  So it would appear to only be on top of Cairo
> and X11.
> 
> Michael

Sounds to me more and more that X11 is more irrelevant to gtk and gdk.


Bill