Re: [matplotlib-devel] contourf masking bug

[Carl W. <cw...@cw...>]

On Thu, 12 Jul 2007 09:29:06 -1000, Eric Firing wrote:
> > So one reason why the backends are a bit of a kludge is because we
> > have tried to throw some extra stuff into the GTK drawing model as an
> > afterthough.  We could redo all the collection stuff w/ compounds
> > paths.

What's the "GTK drawing model" here that is problematic? Is that
pre-cairo stuff? And can using cairo directly help at all?

-Carl