[cairo] rookie question

[Clemens Eisserer]

Hi Dennis,

> default with Xorg and always be enabled when the X11 driver supports
> OpenGL. 2. The toolkits (gtk, qt, etc.) must automatically detect this
> extension and make use of it.
>
> Right now you can have a top notch card in your system and a working OpenGL
> driver yet I can still see all these redraw artefacts when dragging a gtk
> window around. In 2004 this was not so good, in 2006 it was bad but in 2008
> that's quite embarassing actually.
And why do you think OpenGL should/would help GTK?
Actually I don't think OpenGL implementations would be happy
allocating tons of pbuffers (or framebuffer objects) that are thrown
away after one redraw.

- Clemens