Category Archives: General

svu: same situation here. This latest ESR chapter is the last nail in the coffin for me though (“ha ha only serious”), I’m now all set to install Fedora 7 on my powerbook when it’s released. I actually considered moving … Continue reading →

Hi there, this should be my first post in Planet GNOME. My name is Xan López and I’m a spanish/galician hacker. Last september I joined Nokia/OSSO to help overloaded tommi with all-things GTK+ inside Maemo. These days I’m mostly trying … Continue reading →

In the past couple of weeks the pango/cairo performance world domination has proceeded as planned. Cutting down the glyph extents computation per expose, less floating point “burning” in cairo, optimizing the xrender usage for glyph rendering, further tesselator improvements (yet … Continue reading →

Cairo 1.3.4 is out. It includes the new tesselator and a load of floating point improvements by Daniel Armelang as stellar additions. A couple of graphs: As you can see, the new tesselator is already kicking some ass in the … Continue reading →

Finally the first snapshot in the Cairo 1.3 series was released, and so a bit of torturing was due: The good news is that it keeps improving. The awesome news is that there’s still a lot more coming. Hopefully I’ll … Continue reading →

As promised, here is the code: https://garage.maemo.org/svn/plot-torturer Btw, I tried to get the new-tesselator branch of cairo following the instructions from the mail list but got stuck in a “EOF: unexpected end of file”. Is it just me? Does anyone … Continue reading →

Update: Ok, as usual a paper brown bug in the first release. gtk2-10cairopatch was actually using the pangoxft GTK+ instead of stock. Now I’m using the stock version, and sadly the double to fixed patch looks slightly less impressive… anyway, … Continue reading →