Cairo and a backend for directfb are now checked in under the top level cairodfb repository.
I'll try to update agianst the main cairo cvs every few weeks. There are a number of issues with the backend. Directfb issues. Directfb has no wat to get the top level interface from a sub interface making it difficult to get the top DirectFBI interface to do further work. There is no way to create a compatible surface from a existing surface this is quite common and I think should be added. On the cairo side there are a huge number of issues. Cairo right now requires you to implement backend functions even if you can't support them I think this may change soon its been discussed on the list. Cairo does not really support acclerated backends like dfb that are very similar to there image surface. I think the dfb backend should extend/override the image surface. Also there is currently no easy way to acclerate the image surface other operations using directfb ops that may be accelerated or tuned for the platform. So I hope that people intrested in Cairo/Directfb can spend some time looking at the design failures I see so we can come up with a better integration method for Cairo to direct rendering systems such as DirectFB. Please feel free to comment since although I see a number of issues I'm not yet clear on the "right" way to fix cairo for directfb. Mike _______________________________________________ directfb-dev mailing list [email protected] http://mail.directfb.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/directfb-dev
