Re: Emacs, QT and Cairo Was: Re: Efforts to attract more users?

[YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu]

>>>>> On Tue, 13 Jul 2010 16:02:02 -0300, Stephen Eilert <address@hidden> said:

> What about exposing Cairo bindings (GTK already uses it, so it is
> not exactly a new dependency, only the headers) to elisp so that we
> can actually draw a prettier user interface? Things like real lines
> instead of "-" for the modeline (and a better looking modeline
> itself), better looking widgets (the horrendous fake buttons created
> by customize, for example), better fringe layer or even, say, an UML
> mode with good-looking classes. And perhaps a cute speedbar.

An alternative way to do some of them would be generating and
rendering SVG images dynamically.  That is possible even now, and more
standard and less platform specific than cairo bindings.  An
interesting example is given in
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-emacs/2010-05/msg00521.html

                                     YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
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