The toolkit of the particular applications must support using Cairo for drawing. If you mean a toolkit/desktop environment designed around Cairo, I am working on such a project although due to a lot of other work it's not very far. The toolkit is Emotion, written in .NET, it uses Cairo for all drawing (with plugin backend support to provide cairo surface creation and graphic object properties for widgets etc). Of course Emotion is more than just a graphics toolkit and with the Cairo 1.0 changes it's still not back to full functionality. The desktop layer, when I get time for it, will be called Dagon. <div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div><div>On 10/16/05, Nicholas Penwarden <<a href="mailto:penwan@cs.wisc.edu" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">penwan@cs.wisc.edu</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Well, the latest version of GTK+2 uses Cairo to draw everything. So, in a sense, any program using that version of GTK+2 will draw everything with Cairo, if that's what you are asking. Nick On 10/16/05, Asko Kauppi < <a href="mailto:askok@dnainternet.net" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">askok@dnainternet.net</a>> wrote: > > Is there still no "pure Cairo" UI project, anywhere?  Sort of a > window manager (not necessarily windows, in the traditional 2D > meaning..) that would sit on top of the Cairo graphics engine, and > manage multiple apps using Cairo for their graphics output. > > Googling for +cairo +UI gives lots of NT4.0 mentions... yeap. :! > > So, am I just asking the wrong question, or is the question okay but > a bit too early?  Is my analogy of Cairo==Quartz2D, and Aqua==the > missing link right? > > I'd need it for this: > <a href="http://kotisivu.dnainternet.fi/askok/spyder/index.html" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://kotisivu.dnainternet.fi/askok/spyder/index.html</a> > > -ak > > _______________________________________________ > cairo mailing list > <a href="mailto:cairo@cairographics.org" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">cairo@cairographics.org</a> > <a href="http://cairographics.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cairo" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"> http://cairographics.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cairo</a> > > _______________________________________________ cairo mailing list <a href="mailto:cairo@cairographics.org" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">cairo@cairographics.org</a> <a href="http://cairographics.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cairo" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://cairographics.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cairo </a> </blockquote></div> </div> </blockquote></div>