From: "Jan D." <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs, colors and gdk-pixbuf.
Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2003 23:43:59 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <08E8A3E0-6DF9-11D7-92C7-00039363E640@swipnet.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <x5znmuuok5.fsf@lola.goethe.zz>
söndagen den 13 april 2003 kl 22.31 skrev David Kastrup:
> "Jan D." <jan.h.d@swipnet.se> writes:
>
>> Some time ago there was some discussion about improving image and
>> color handling in Emacs.
>
> Meaning that I said "oh this sucks so bad, can't be do something
> about it?". And of course the easiest way out is to use existing
> code that sucks less. There is a disadvantage of course: it is not
> nice if the only Emacs that offers reasonable performance and
> semantics for images and colors is the GTK version. There are two
> answers to that:
It is quite possible to use gdk-pixbuf with other toolkits. I made all
my tests with Lucid to make sure.
> a) other toolkits usually should also have their own favorite ways of
> dealing with the same problem, so one could try shifting work load
> more into the toolkits if that is found to be the case.
>
> b) the generic Emacs code for handling the stuff gets an overhaul.
>> First, gdk-pixbuf is inherently single displayed. This means that
>> Emacs would be limited to one display. Since GTK also is
>> single-displayed (perhaps not 2.2, there has been talk about some
>> changes, I haven't checked this yet), we could make gdk-pixbuf the
>> default for GTK.
>
>> From the release announcements:
>
> GTK+-2.1.5 is now available for download at:
>
> ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/v2.1/
>
> This is the final prerelease before GTK+-2.2. The major
> change as compared to the stable GTK+-2.0.6 is support for
> multiple displays and multiple screens in GDK, although there are
> numerous minor changes as well.
Unfortunately, this does not apply to the X11 rendering part of
gdk-pixbuf. It is still single display only.
> Since Emacs is potentially multiheaded (see, for example, the
> talk-connect function), it would probably be better if the GTK port
> followed suit where possible and supported.
I will add that eventually.
Jan D.
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2003-04-13 19:17 Emacs, colors and gdk-pixbuf Jan D.
2003-04-13 20:31 ` David Kastrup
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