new developer release with cairo integration
Arun Persaud <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.gnu.xboard.devel |
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Hi there is a new developer release available with some bigger changes. We now use cairo for most or all of the drawing and SVGs for the pieces. This allowed for example to make the XBoard main window resizable ;) Try it out and let us know how its working for you and what we can/need improve on! It would also be great to know if the configure scripts works on all operating systems. The next item on the list is doing the GTK port (again). You can already try it out in HGM's git tree if you want. Due to lot of restructuring lately we now are in a position of only having Xt calls in a very small amount of files and are just porting those. In the end we want to have Xt and Gtk in parallel available (via configure --with-gtk or something like that) and perhaps also get a native OS X front-end and perhaps update the native windows one. We were also thinking about adding some kind of theme-support, which will probably come after the gtk port. More or less it will let you choose which svg directory you want to use together with some other items such as background texture for the board and colors. The mono-option will then just be a mono-theme for example. HGM can probably give a more detailed update, since I was only involved in some configure questions, SVGs and other very minor details. cheers ARUN