[cairo] Pure Cairo UI ?

Alexander Larsson alexl at redhat.com
Mon Oct 17 02:01:25 PDT 2005


On Sun, 2005-10-16 at 21:36 -0700, Vladimir Vukicevic wrote:
> 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.

It depends on what you mean. Gtk+ clearly still support all the old gdk
calls which use old-style X drawing. However, most drawing actually done
by Gtk+ is through the GtkStyle drawing operations, and many of these
(at least for the default theme) are implemented using cairo.

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