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Projektlinks

• Homepage

Befehle und Aliase

• libart2-config

Projektgeschichte

Libart grew out of the late-1990s GNOME graphics stack, where GNOME needed a structured canvas and antialiased vector rendering before Cairo existed. Levien's project page says the source lived in GNOME CVS and that he owned the copyright to the code base, while GNOME distributed the LGPL-oriented libart_lgpl tarballs for use by desktop components.

The 2000 Freenix paper on GNOME Canvas documented a section called the Libart Imaging Model, showing how paths, sorted vector paths, antialiasing, stroking, raster images, and microtile arrays fit into the canvas update and rendering pipeline.

Adoptionsgeschichte

Libart was adopted by GNOME Canvas, Gill, and other GNOME-era applications that needed vector drawing before newer 2D APIs became common. GNOME's source archive shows the libart_lgpl 2.3 release line continuing through 2.3.21 on 2010-04-01, which is why package managers still carry it mostly for older software compatibility.

Wie es verwendet wird

The library is used by C and C++ programs that need low-level vector path rendering, Bezier and vector path data structures, alpha compositing, affine transforms, and region/microtile calculations. On Unix packages, the small `libart2-config` helper exposed compiler and linker flags to dependent builds.

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

Libart is a classic compatibility package: small, old, and mostly invisible until some older GNOME, graphics, or document-rendering dependency asks for it. It marks the pre-Cairo period of Linux desktop graphics and still shows up in package graphs as `libart_lgpl` or `libart`.

Zeitleiste

• 2000: GNOME Canvas Freenix paper documents the Libart Imaging Model.
• 2001: GNOME source archive lists libart_lgpl 2.3.5 tarballs.
• 2010: GNOME source archive publishes libart_lgpl 2.3.21.

Related projects

• GNOME Canvas, Gill, SVG, Java 2D, PostScript, Cairo, and older GNOME graphics applications are the main historical neighbors.

Quellen

• https://download.gnome.org/sources/libart_lgpl/2.3/
• https://levien.com/libart/
• https://levien.com/libart/vpath.html
• https://static.usenix.org/event/usenix2000/freenix/full_papers/quintero/quintero_html/fmq-usenix-2000.html