Re: transforms in gdk?

[Mark <jamess1 wwnet com>]

Owen Taylor wrote:
> 
> Mark <jamess1 wwnet com> writes:
> 
> > Hello,
> >   Does any else think transforms would be usefull in gdk? I'm thinking
> > along the lines of:
> >
> > gdk_gc_set_transform ()
> >
> > Should be fairly easy to implement, with the exception of text and
> > images.
> 
> And arcs and... (depending on how general a transform you want to support.)
> 
> >  I'm looking specifically for text tranformations, but I think in
> > general this would be usefull, especial when the hardware of the system
> > can accelerate these operations.
> 
> At some point in the future, we'll move to a new drawing model for
> GDK with anti-aliasing, transforms, alpha-compositing, and so forth.
> That's quite a ways off.

Who says we have to implement it all at once? At least if the API is
there we don't wait for major revisions to actually use some it.

Mark