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Re: Security advisory: gtk2-x11


Gerrit P. Haase wrote:
Hmm, this is the first time I hear about glitz and cairo.  Is it used
instead of X11?

Not exactly. cairo[1] is a cross-platform 2D graphics rendering engine with support for multiple backends. glitz is a wrapper for the various types of OpenGL APIs.


[1] http://cairographics.org/introduction

cairo is now used by GNOME, and particularly pango and gtk+, instead of libart_lgpl2 and libgnomecanvas2, which are being deprecated (but need to stay for compatibility), and to a certain degree, gdk-pixbuf.

Anyway, are you ready to consider bumping glib/gtk+ to 2.8? Let me know, and I'll ITP glitz and cairo.


Yaakov



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