On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 01:19, Nicolas Mailhot <[email protected]> wrote: > > Le Mar 7 avril 2009 22:41, Mark Wagner a écrit : > >> Thanks. Is there any documentation on the best way to do various >> high-level tasks, such as drawing images? > > As already discussed, for higher-level tasks you'll be better of going > through a higher-level library such as cairo. > > cairo is not listed proeminently as an X component, because it also > works on non-X systems but it is a core library for anything doing GUI > stuff under X nowadays (with the exception of QT apps, but QT has a > wider scope than cairo)
How standard is Cairo? The proof-of-concept app from 15 years ago still works fine because it's only got two dependancies: Xlib and libc. It works everywhere for the same reason. If I added Cairo as a dependancy, would apps still work on 100% of Linux systems, and would they still work unmodified 15 years from now? -- Mark Wagner _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
