Plot2Kill 0.02

[Rory Mcguire]

Johannes Pfau wrote:

> On 21.07.2010 15:32, dsimcha wrote:
>> == Quote from Rory McGuire (rmcguire at neonova.co.za)'s article
>>> Cairo probably makes the most sense. Then you can do pdf, svg, jpg,
>>> opengl...
>>> -Rory
>> 
>> This will probably happen fairly soon.  Initially, when I was still just
>> trying to get off the ground and figure out how gtkD (and GUIs in
>> general) worked, I was reluctant to use Cairo because the API seemed more
>> difficult than GTK's native
>> drawing API, and less similar to DFL's drawing API.  Now that things are
>> off the ground and have gone from "make it work" to "make it right", I've
>> written a few small test programs to get a feel for how Cairo works, and
>> figured out how to make it do everything I need it to.
>> 
>> I need to do some serious refactoring first, to separate the drawing
>> logic from the GUI logic, remove baked in assumptions that I'm drawing to
>> a raster surface, encapsulate a bunch of coordinate translation logic,
>> and maybe backport some
>> design improvements to DFL (not hard).  After that I'll probably port the
>> whole
>> GTK version to Cairo.  Question:  After I port the GTK version to Cairo,
>> does anyone still care about the native GDK API version (for
>> compatibility or any other completely unanticipated reason), or should I
>> just completely abandon/discard it and make Cairo the only GTK version?
> 
> I think cairo as the only gtk version is fine. Even widgets bundled with
> gtk are often drawn with cairo.
> 

It might be interesting to see the speed difference, but I think thats about 
it.
Do you plan on supporting QT/KDE?

-Rory