Re: gtk layering

[Paul Davis <paul linuxaudiosystems com>]

On Wed, 2006-10-04 at 11:40 -0300, Leandro Fanzone wrote:
> Paul Davis wrote:
> > Cairo is a general purpose drawing library that new versions of Gdk use
> > to draw things in windows. 
> Excuse me for my ignorance, but you mean that Cairo would be a 
> replacement to the Gdk level, or it's a layer between Gdk and the 
> rendering engine (win32, X11, DirectFB, etc.)? Where Cairo does fit in 
> the picture?

well, Cairo doesn't replace all the non-drawing functionality in Gdk
(window creation, management, event handling etc). so Cairo doesn't
replace Gdk. it can mediate between Gdk and the underlying rendering
engine, however, and already has in recent Gtk releases.

--p