I used abs and upgraded my GTK to 2.8. Before doing such, I read through th changelog, and from what I remember, there were some very interesting things relevant to a devloper, that would be great to be able to use.
Besides, cairo does a bit more than smoothed edges on the colour picker and arrows. I've been using a combination of Caligula - aka cairo-gtk-engine, a demonstrative and experimental engine, and Clearlooks-Cairo, which is a cairo based clearlooks. Both I pulled from CVS. Caligula is particularly interesting, as the appearance of it's widgets is always different, they are generated via some algorithm, so the stripes area always slightly different. This is nice, as it helps to prevent me or anyone getting sick of a theme -- it's always slightly different :) Take a look at a screenshot ere; https://iphitus.no-ip.org/screenshots/200805.png https://iphitus.no-ip.org/images/cairogtk.png take a close look at the tiger stripes everywhere :) These new engines are being drawn via cairo, and via a new cairo based method of drawing themes. It allows a theme engine developer much more power over what they can do, and from what I understand, it's also a tad easier. Cairo's integration also helps with any GTK app that uses a gtk drawing area of any sort. These are now rendered with Cairo, allowing much more to be done with them, as well as hardware rendering via graphics card. So 2.8 does have some very interesting things for a developer, that will in turn, result in an subtly improved experience for a user. iphitus On 8/26/05, Andy Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 26 Aug 2005 02:28, Andrew Conkling wrote: > > The recent release of GTK+ 2.8 has gotten me a bit excited as a PyGTK > > developer, so I've been eagerly waiting for the upgrade in pacman. > > Now, before you think this is me whining because it's not in current > > yet... > > > > This made me realize that in this case, and maybe others, perhaps I > > could offer some assistance. Is there anything I can do to help? > > > > Regards, > > Andrew > > Can someone explain why GTK+ 2.8 is worth getting excited about? I don't mean > that in a nasty way. I'm a KDE user and so don't experience GTK that often. > But from what I've seen about this new release, the Cairo backend simply > gives the colour picker anti-aliased edges. Is there something I'm missing? > > arooaroo > > _______________________________________________ > arch mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch > -- iphitus - www.iphitus.tk _______________________________________________ arch mailing list [email protected] http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
