Hi; On Fri, 2008-04-25 at 18:19 +0200, Bogdan Nicula wrote: > > > Hmmm possibly - assuming we can somehow 'subclass' the pangocairo > > renderer in a similar (or better :)) way we do now with pangoft2 (and > > cache glyphs in textures). > > I don't know if that's possible, I'll have a look.
It not really possible currently as we have to do some nasty duping stuff to make it work. Looking to fix this soon (hopefully for 0.8) > > > Of course that brings in a new dep for Clutter that could bring in other > > issues - i.e is Cairo as portable as freetype etc ? And there could well > > be performance implications too. > > I guess since GTK+ requires Cairo for a long time already, it's at least as > portable as that... Yeah may not be too much of an issue. Thinking of things GTK does not support though, like raw EGL on framebuffer, iphone etc. > > > Not completely sold on the idea if the win is just essentially switching > > out a dep. > > In my view, the win would be to use the native platform font renderer on > Windows/Mac OS X. > Yes you are right - just dont want to more seriously impact on other maybe more common (in Clutter's case) targets. Needs some thought. == Matthew -- To unsubscribe send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
