Le Wednesday, 16. July 2008 17:37:03 Emmanuele Bassi, vous avez écrit : > On Wed, 2008-07-16 at 17:34 +0200, Sascha Peilicke wrote: > > > Believe it or not, Qt is a more polished and integrated toolkit on the > > > surface, but we have better and more robust code in the inside. I say > > > that from my experience from Pango, having worked with Qt hackers to > > > merge the text shaping engine of Qt and Pango into HarfBuzz. We also > > > have things like cairo, which is becoming the standard drawing API on > > > freedesktop, is designed with API usability in mind from the beginning, > > > and is simply too cool to give away. > > > > I'm not into all the details relating pango and cairo implementation but > > at least the latter has a weakness, it has only a double-precision > > rendering path, no single-precision and no int-based, which is bad for > > embedded devices which have limited capabilities (no floating point unit, > > ...). > > wrong. cairo has an internal fixed point path and floating point API, > and has had it for quite a while now. embedded devices have been using > cairo since release 1.2.0 or 1.4.0 - and now we are at 1.6.x. > > ciao, > Emmanuele.
My apologies, didn't know that. Why is it not an external interface? -- Sascha Peilicke http://saschashideout.de _______________________________________________ gnome-devel-list mailing list gnome-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-devel-list
