Re: Emacs, QT and Cairo

[Óscar Fuentes]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

>> From: Chad Brown <address@hidden>
>> 
>> I'm actually not looking at it as a problem to be solved at all, but
>> rather as a blue-sky project to investigate what might be possible
>> with new display toolkits.  By way of example, in past discussions
>> about using systems like (but not exactly) khtml, gecko, or gnome's
>> canvas with emacs, it was suggested that emacs had certain
>> requirements that such systems could not meet.

I'm very interested on this. Which are those requirements that gnome's
canvas can not meet? Is it because gnome's canvas has some special
limitations that other systems (such as Qt's Graphics View Framework) do
not suffer?

>> My guess is that while this is still true to some degree, there might
>> be new systems that could get along with emacs' needs, and that might
>> offer features not currently available to emacs.
>
> I'm not sure I follow: are you looking for toolkits that can be used
> to replace the Emacs display engine, i.e. those toolkits that support
> everything Emacs needs and does today?

I think he is looking for something that *expands* what Emacs can do
today. I'm not a GUI guy, but having a display engine that works on a
drawing surface instead of a TTY on steroids would open an entire new
field of posibilities for Emacs.