[cairo] Re: Notes on cairo/win32

[Peter Dennis Bartok]

>Theoretically, we would need a software renderer to implement them
>properly, but that's a lot of work, and we don't have the resources
>to do it currently. So we have to play all sorts of silly games with
>the X server, bouncing the image back an forth (GDI operations must
>coherently modify the DIB with any direct memory modification
>performed by the application). This is both rather nasty and slow.
>
>My hope is that we would be able to use Cairo to do the rendering.

Mono has a libgdiplus library that implements the MS GDI+ interface on top 
of Cairo already. Wine could use that today to get gdi+ functionality.

Cheers,
 Peter