[cairo] Pure Cairo UI ?

[Vladimir Vukicevic]

AFAIK, this is actually a common misconception; GTK 2.8 allows you to
draw using cairo (lets you get at a cairo_t/cairo surface), but
doesn't do all drawing through cairo.  Core gdk drawing still occurs
using native X calls.

    - Vlad

On 10/16/05, Nicholas Penwarden <penwan at cs.wisc.edu> wrote:
> Well, the latest version of GTK+2 uses Cairo to draw everything. So,
> in a sense, any program using that version of GTK+2 will draw
> everything with Cairo, if that's what you are asking.
>
> Nick
>
> On 10/16/05, Asko Kauppi <askok at dnainternet.net> wrote:
> >
> > Is there still no "pure Cairo" UI project, anywhere?  Sort of a
> > window manager (not necessarily windows, in the traditional 2D
> > meaning..) that would sit on top of the Cairo graphics engine, and
> > manage multiple apps using Cairo for their graphics output.
> >
> > Googling for +cairo +UI gives lots of NT4.0 mentions... yeap. :!
> >
> > So, am I just asking the wrong question, or is the question okay but
> > a bit too early?  Is my analogy of Cairo==Quartz2D, and Aqua==the
> > missing link right?
> >
> > I'd need it for this:
> > http://kotisivu.dnainternet.fi/askok/spyder/index.html
> >
> > -ak
> >
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