Re: 2.6 digressions [was Re: release notes pimping [and some random thoughts on 2.6]]

[Luis Villa <louie ximian com>]

On Sun, 2003-08-03 at 00:11, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> > >  - preferred applications spec that works cross-desktop
> > >    (easier if we have cross-desktop IPC system like dbus)
> > 
> > Possibly a dumb question, but if mime stuff works correctly, why do we
> > need the concept of 'preferred applications' at all?
> 
> Right, I forgot people on xdg-list are talking about using the MIME
> spec for this. I think there's a slight issue with e.g. mapping
> "mailto:"; to a MIME type but that can be hacked in to the spec somehow
> (I didn't really follow the whole thread).

That hack frankly looked really gross :) But /something/ like it is
clearly needed.

> > >  - Cairo (was Xr) vector graphics (needs someone to write printing 
> > >    backend; then we can do really cool stuff).
> > 
> > Isn't this more properly handled at the GTK level?
> 
> On the GDK level we were just going to add a dependency on Cairo and
> add gdk_drawable_get_cairo_surface() [1] - Owen said he wasn't
> planning to do a GDK wrapper API.

Ah. I'd assumed that he would.

> [1] I say cairo_surface() but apparently Carl has decided to rename to 
> cairo_papyrus() ... 

Heh. I knew I liked Carl. ;) 

Luis