On Wed, 2005-06-15 at 11:16 +0100, Rob Taylor wrote: > 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?
Yes.
Owen
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