Cairo 1.10 Released With Lots Of New Work

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Cairo 1.10 Released With Lots Of New Work

Cairo, the 2D drawing API that's used extensively within GTK+, Mono, Mozilla's Gecko engine, WebKit, and many other open-source projects, is out with a new major release. Cairo 1.10 is this major release to succeed the Cairo 1.8 stable series, which was introduced back in September of 2008...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=ODU3Nw

[ssam]

are the speed ups relative to 1.9 or 1.8?

[ioannis]

any tutorial on how to use the opengl backend? The API docs don't mention an opengl surface

[ioannis]

The API docs seem to be outdated. There are:
cairo_glx_device_create() and cairo_gl_surface_create() methods in the source code.

and I found this using them: Performance OpenGL backend

I can't find anything on GTK

[ethana2]

Can this version render with Wayland instead of X11?

[Ikipou]

Phoronix: Cairo 1.10 Released With Lots Of New Work

Cairo, the 2D drawing API that's used extensively within GTK+, Mono, Mozilla's Gecko engine, WebKit, and many other open-source projects, is out with a new major release.
http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=ODU3Nw

Cairo isn't really used by WebKit. Apple, Google and Nokia do not use Cairo for their port at least.

[RealNC]

I just upgraded to it, and enabled the OpenGL backend. This results in Firefox being slow as molasses...

I am not impressed.

[RealNC]

OK, I take that back; it seems Firefox enters slow motion mode with Cairo 1.10 regardless of the chosen backend. Reverting to Cairo 1.8...

[srg_13]

Can this version render with Wayland instead of X11?

Wayland has used Cairo internally from the beginning. So yes, it still does work with Wayland.