Re: CairoIO - Cairo compatible successor to GdkPixbuf

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Thu, 2007-11-15 at 22:34 +0100, Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen wrote:
> 
> I am really exited about the idea about joggling cairo surfaces around
> over G{In,Out}putStreams, but the idea may be bonkers, I have not read
> the GIO api much, not do I understand the finer details of cairo
> surfaces.

Yeah, this seems like a good idea. In the star trek future, the idea is
that all sorts of libs that read data (from network or whatever) will
produce a GInputStream. If cairoIO can read these (async and sync) it
will automatically be able to consume pixbuf data from any source.

Although there should still be (helper) functions to load from  a
GFile*, and maybe from char *path.