On Wed, 2005-06-22 at 10:26 +0200, Tarjei Knapstad wrote: > On Wed, 2005-06-22 at 02:46, Rodd Clarkson wrote: > > On Tue, 2005-06-21 at 07:02 -0400, Build System wrote: > > What does this mean for users without hardware acceleration? > > What does this mean for users with NVIDIA and ATI cards who don't have > > support for 3D rendering because current open source drivers aren't > > offering support for this? > It means you won't get accelerated graphics :) > > I think the whole point of Cairo is that it's a common graphics > framework with multiple backends. If your application renders graphics > using Cairo you automatically get support for rendering to: > > * The X window system > * OpenGL > * The Win32 API > * Postscript > * PDF > * SVG > * etc... > > So in theory at least it's a graphics portability layer. You can build > your application for windows just by selecting Win32 rendering, users > will get hardware accelerated output if they have support for it or > normal X rendering if not and so forth. Implementing printing and PS/PDF > output is also a breeze for the application developer as he/she can just > render using these backends. > > Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think this is what Cairo is meant for - > fast vector graphics with multiple backends making life easier for > application developers, and life faster for users with hardware > accelerated graphics. Those without it shouldn't notice any difference. Don't get me wrong (and I'm not sure if you have). I think Cairo is a wonderful idea and I'm really looking forward to seeing what people do with it. What I'm wanting to know is will people without hardware acceleration be worse off. Are non-hw-accelerated users going to end up with a system that runs something like non-hw-accelerated 3D (which really sucks, even with a good processor)? Or will the rendering on non-hw-accelerated systems be quite good, and rendering with hw-accelerated systems will be brilliant? regards R. -- "It's a fine line between denial and faith. It's much better on my side" -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
