Playing with Cairo

By Pid Eins September 13, 2006 · Edited March 3, 2026

Play around with Cairo (http://cairographics.org/): Check! One thing that has been sitting on my TODO list for a very long time was playing around with Cairo. No longer! Yesterday I spent a little

Play around with Cairo (http://cairographics.org/): Check!

One thing that has been sitting on my TODO list for a very long time was playing around with Cairo. No longer! Yesterday I spent a little time on hacking a Cairo based equivalent of KDE’s Filelight (http://www.methylblue.com/filelight/) (Which BTW is one of the two programs that KDE has but GNOME really lacks, the other being KCacheGrind (http://kcachegrind.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/show.cgi)). The result after two hours is this:

This screenshot shows the development tree of my Syrep tool (http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/syrep/).

This tool has definitely nicer anti-aliased graphics than Filelight, doesn’t it? The source code is here: fring.py. Anyone interested in turning this into a proper GNOME application?

Reference: https://0pointer.net/blog/projects/fring.html