Re: Cairo drawing

[Stephen Kennedy <stevek gnome org>]

> I've starting porting Meld over to cairo. I've already got the linkmap
> working like a charm and I'm going to tackle the rest in a bit.
> 
> I've started ahead of asking or even mentioning this here, because even
> if someone else is already doing this, I figured this would be a fun
> project to practice cairo on.
> 
> I still hope I didn't interrupt anyone else's efforts to do this. :)

Hi St�an, that sournds interesting! I'm using debian and pygtk2.6
for development, so haven't seen much of cario/gtk2.8. Does using cairo
directly gain anything (ie speed or AA) instead of gdk? Do the gdk
methods not just forward to cairo internally?

Stephen.