gEDA-dev: on the use of cairo and gtk>2.6

[Anthony J Bybell]

On Thu, 31 Aug 2006, Dan McMahill wrote:

> How strongly do I feel about it?  Well, since my only X display at home
> is 8-bit psuedo color, any move which requires cairo before their
> problems are fixed will stop any of my development work...

Not really.  You could open a vncserver in 64k truecolor then use
vncviewer which will remap down to 256 colors for you.  I've done the
reverse of this for legacy EDA tools (won't name the vendor) that only ran
in 256 color mode.

-Tony