Re: ANN: GNUstep back version 0.9.4

[Fred Kiefer]

Florent Pillet wrote:
> On 25 sept. 04, at 05:05, Adam Fedor wrote:
>
> >    * Added a Cairo backend, although it is probably non-functional.
> >      Anyone is invited to contribute to making it work.
>
>
> Sorry to seem clueless but ... what is a "Cairo" backend?

Cairo is yet another backend for GNUstep, this one being based on the 
cairo project (http://www.cairographics.org/), which basically is a 
graphics toolkit with a drawing concept very close to the one used by 
GNUstep. (Even aiming for the same composition operators)

Banlu wrote this backend some time ago and submited it to GNUstep this 
summer. I made it a bit more usable (at least for me :-)), but image 
handling is still not working. It may just be me, never knowing which 
way is up, but, as this happens for every backend I have to support, my 
impression is that GNUstep GUI is handing over the images the wrong way. 
You may proof me wrong by correcting the image handling in the Cairo 
backend :-)

Apart from not handling images, cairo is rather slow and there are 
missing bits in the font handling (actually rather big bits).

Cheers
Fred