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date: "2000-09-05T12:49:00Z"
title: 'Evas: OpenGL For Free!'
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Well, CVS EWL has preliminary Evas support now.
The software rendering alone is much faster, but Evas also gives EWL
OpenGL support for free! I don't
really have the setup to be testing the GL acceleration, but the
Evas test program is a _lot_ faster in GL mode. For those of you
who want to try out the acceleration in EWL, just do the following:
ewldbtool ~/.ewl/preferences render/mode 3D_Hardware
As of tonight, the previous rendering system is still in EWL, but
horribly broken -- the only thing that will display is the window
background (which you can customize by editing background key in
~/.ewl/themes/defaultTheme/EwlWindow.db).
I'm pretty comfortable with Mutt
now. It's amazing how fast I switched. I've made several tweaks
to Tom Gilbert's default
muttrc file -- sooner or later I'll post the file for all to see.
That's about it for right now -- tomorrow I'm going to rip apart
the theme engine in EWL and make it support Evas images. It's a
real pain in the ass to break this stuff, but Evas support will
make it all worthwhile in the end.