On Sat, 7 Jan 2006 09:57:04 -0600 Mike Emmel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> babbled:
> On 1/7/06, Daniel Laird <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > All this GTK work is very exciting ground for directfb. > > > > I presume the next version of cairo that is released will have this in and i > > am hoping that gtk will support the DFB backend soon as this really builds > > momentum for this API. > > > > > > > > I have a question though and that is has anyone tried > > http://www.enlightenment.org/ version D17 of this says it supports DirectFB > > > > Any triers? > > > > Any opinions. > > > I've played with it before I upgraded the gtk port for directfb. > It has a lot of good ideas but the problem is it replicates a lot of > functionality found in lower level libraries and does not provide a > complete solution ala gtk so its a bit of and oddball. Basically you > can add enlightenment but generally it does not replace anything. > Evas for example is cool but its not a complete 2D stack like cairo so > you end up > looking at cairo on evas then wonder why am i using evas ? cairo != evas. cairo is a 2d vector lib with immediate mode rendering. evas is a structured mode canvas with persistant objects. it works for our needs quite well. :) unlike cairo it has a blazing fast software engine and is entirely usable without hardware aceleration. (evas's software engine is an order of about 20-30 times faster than cairo. evas also has an xrender engine, opengl, directfb, runs in the linux framebuffer, can render to memory buffers, supports qtopia and has a cairo engine that is half complete but was not worth completing due to performance issues). evas is designed for doing specific kinds of "display" in a certain way - it's not everything for everyone, but "full" solutions exist on top. ETK and EWL are 2 widget sets that sit on top of evas that provide a large set of widgets and they are growing. anyway - :) just thought i needed to unlurk :) i agree - evas is not a complete stack/solution - it's special for certain things, but what it does. it does very well and very fast, with good quality. we are improving its primitive support to make it do more - and it's design is easily expandible :) > But I do agree with the overall high level design he is on the right track. > It should port fairly quickly to directfb I did not see that as a problem. > > > > > > > Keep up the good work on gtk+webcore, cairo, gtk etc > > > > > > > > Dan > > ________________________________ > > Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! MSN Messenger > > _______________________________________________ > > directfb-dev mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://mail.directfb.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/directfb-dev > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > directfb-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.directfb.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/directfb-dev > -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) [EMAIL PROTECTED] 裸好多 Tokyo, Japan (東京 日本) _______________________________________________ directfb-dev mailing list [email protected] http://mail.directfb.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/directfb-dev
