<AWT Dev> Question about GtkLnF implementation

[Clemens Eisserer]

Hi Damjan,

> The number of roundtrips isn't such a problem, the number is pixels
> is. 2 NxM pixmaps have the same number of pixels in total as an Nx2M
> or 2NxM pixmap, so little time is saved.

Sure the amount of data stays the same - however for (most modern)
video drivers which place their pixmaps in vram it does make a
difference.The whole situation is quite ugly :-/

> Anyway, when last I heard the solution to this was to subclass GDK
> drawing functions so they draw with the alpha channel in the first
> place, instead of the double drawing without alpha and then mixing
> pixmaps to recover it. Anyone working on this?

Hmm, I guess the best thing would be to get GTK's broken theme API
right, to draw on a cairo-context instead of a GdkDrawalbe.

I submited patches for rfc some time ago, but nobody really looked at
it. To me it seems GTK is quite dead.
When I brought that topic up again, it was mentioned that the work is
obsolete because GTK+3 will have an all new-any-shiny theming API
which will be perfect in any aspect.

However they are talking about GTK+3 for about 2,5 years now, with no outcome.

Hmm, I am starting to get personal again ;)

- Clemens