From fbb0e4d0300670e9d8789c566ade4f4016099c3e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Carl Worth Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 00:47:02 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Add GTK+ Hackfest day #2 post --- src/gtk+/hackfest_2008_03_11.mdwn | 71 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 71 insertions(+) create mode 100644 src/gtk+/hackfest_2008_03_11.mdwn diff --git a/src/gtk+/hackfest_2008_03_11.mdwn b/src/gtk+/hackfest_2008_03_11.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9ab05fb --- /dev/null +++ b/src/gtk+/hackfest_2008_03_11.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,71 @@ +[[meta title="GTK+ Hackfest day #2"]] + +[[tag gtk conferences]] + +I have the opportunity to be attending a [GTK+ +Hackfest](http://live.gnome.org/GTK+/Hackfest2008) in Berlin this +week. Visiting Berlin, (and sleeping about a block away from +Checkpoint Charlie), is quite interesting, and a welcome new +experience for me. + +I promised some people back home that I would post daily updates on +things that get discussed/decided here. The hackfest could only +support a couple dozen people, but certainly there's a larger audience +interested in the things happening here. And it would be a shame to +not share things with that larger audience. + +So far I've done a very poor job of actually getting those updates +out. One snag was that due to some interaction of bugs in ikiwiki +and/or planet, planet.gnome.org decided to post ancient posts of mine +instead of recent ones. I still haven't worked out those bugs +completely. In the meantime, I'm glad that some people that missed it +the first time enjoyed my writeup on learning git. And for anyone +wondering about my son Scott, it's been over 6 months since his first +steps, and he's now walking, running, and doing everything else +expected of a 2-year-old. Anyone who met him for the first time now +would never know that he ever had any problem. So that's wonderful. + +But getting back to the hackfest: Due to my travel schedule I missed +the first day completely. I know that some transitioning-to-GTK+-3.0 +plans were discussed then, and hopefully people have seen those +slides. There was also a lot of talk about adding introspection to +GTK+, (to enable automatic language bindings and other fancy +things). The introspection discussion has continued over the second +and third days, and hopefully it's going just great, (but I haven't +been a part of it at all---somehow it's just one of those topics that +makes my brain switch off---but I'm glad other people are interested +in solving the issues). + +So what I did do on Tuesday included a fantastic presentation from +Behdad Esfahbod about the proposed "user font" API for cairo. This is +something that's had some preliminary patches since 2006 when Kristian +Høgsberg first needed this for supporting fonts embedded in PDF +files. The discussion here took great advantage of having all the +right people together at the same time, (though it would have been +great to have Kristian here as well). We had an implementor (Behdad), +a maintainer (myself), and two consumers of the API, (Benjamin +"Company" Otte of [swfdec](http://swfdec.freedesktop.org) fame and Alp +Toker of [WebKit/GTK+](http://live.gnome.org/WebKitGtk). That was a +great group to have together to make sure we the API would make +everybody happy. We found several changes that will improve the API +quite a bit, but also shouldn't be too much work. Behdad plans to have +the changes all committed to cairo, (on a new 1.7 development branch), +before the end of the week. + +Afterwards, Behdad returned my code-review favor by taking a look at +the patch series I have for adding support for arbitrary true-color +visuals to cairo. This series is to address a +[number](https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7735) of fatal +[bugs](https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9719) that occur +when targeting X servers that don't have the Render extension, (Xvnc +is a common case). I knew my patch series had some ugly bits in it, +but I wasn't sure what the cleanest fix would be. Behdad set me +straight right away. So I'll be landing this in cairo very shortly, +and this is one of the very last issues left unfinished on the [cairo +1.6 roadmap](http://cairographics.org/roadmap/). + +The only other unfinished feature on the roadmap is support for +pseudo-color visuals, but Behdad is trying to convince me to let that +slip, (it's a lot of work for fairly small gain). Who would be really +hurt to see this feature slip again? Let me know if you are, (and I'll +let you know how you can help make it happen too). -- 2.43.0