Evas: OpenGL For Free!

September 5, 2000

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.