Sec: Unclassified Xara X Open Sourced

[JanC]

On 10/14/05, volvoguy <volvoguy at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10/12/05, JanC <janc13 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I have briefly used this on windows in the past & I can only agree
> > that if they can get us the the same quality on linux, this app might
> > pull over a lot of graphics people to linux!
>
> I've not used it in AGES, and I'm not a programmer, but if they
> open-source their rendering engine and it really performs that much
> better than cairo, could it be used instead of cairo on the desktop as
> well? Just curious. Hmm...

I don't know if replacing is possible, it would probably force people
to have to learn a new API, and change all their existing code to use
it...

I have just tried the demo version (which includes only an incomplete
port of the rendering engine, and has no editing support) and it feels
really fast even on my P3 666MHz with a TNT2 graphics card (nvidia
legacy binary drivers).

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JanC