[cairo] Cairo and GTK

[Carl Worth]

On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 18:08:36 -0800, Jacob Gorm Hansen wrote:
> I have seen quite a lot of mention of GTK+ now depending on Cairo. Does 
> that mean that if I provide my own Cairo backend, I can run GTK+ 
> applications without any other abstractions (like X) in place?

A toolkit like GTK+ needs a lot of support from the underlying window
system. Cairo provides one piece, (drawing things), but you'll still
a bunch of other things, (keyboard/mouse input, window clip-list
management, etc. etc.).

-Carl
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