[Verse-dev] Verse in Cairo?

[Emil Brink]

On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 10:11 PM, Dave Crossland <dave at lab6.com> wrote:
> Hi!

Hello.

> http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17733
>
> I'd be interested to hear Verse developers' thoughts on the feasiblity of this; I may be able to fund the development of work in this area
> (I'm specifically interested in 2D vector illustration software that is network transparent and real time collaborative - for fonts :-)

Hm ... I think it's not a great "fit" for the Verse technology. The
protocol really *is* optimized for 3D graphics. The GIMP stuff is
done using Verse's bitmap support, i.e. the only thing shared is the
bitmap layers (rectangles of pixels), not the brush strokes,
filter applications, and all other operations that lead to the pixel values.

I'm not overly familiar with Cairo myself, but I think there could be
problems if you wanted to share the high-level "vectory" calls, rather
than the more low-level pixel-based results.

With font editing, I guess the vector-level strokes and operations are
what you want to share, not the pixels that happen to result for
some rendering. Corrections welcome of course (are you around, Eskil?).

Nice idea, though.

Regards,

/Emil