On Fri, 2005-06-10 at 09:33 -0400, Owen Taylor wrote: > On Fri, 2005-06-10 at 15:12 +0200, Jeroen Zwartepoorte wrote: > > Since everybody is talking about how glitz will eventually speedup > > drawing operations by using hardware accelerated OpenGL, i built it > > and then rebuilt cairo so cairo will detect glitz and compile with > > support for it. > > > > How does glitz further integrate into the desktop stack? Can i make > > gtk+ use glitz for drawing widgets? If so, how? > > The way glitz integrates in is on the server side: > > GTK+ => Cairo --- <RENDER> ---> X server => glitz => OpenGL > > This will give the same basic performance benefits as having Cairo > use glitz directly, but with many less complications. Currently, > we don't foresee having GTK+ render via glitz as a very interesting > way to go for the desktop. > > Note that the performance slowdowns people have been seeing for > GtkTextView likely have not much to do with rendering and everything > to do with text measurement.
You'll have to excude me for not having followed much cairo/X work for a while, but does that ' --- <RENDER> ---' imply that cairo is rendering lots of traps using the RENDER extension? Thanks, Rob Taylor _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
