Re: Why run xserver on the OpenGL API?

On Tue, 2003-11-25 at 14:42, Keith Packard wrote:
> 
> Not quite; modern 2D applications need a new rendering API as the core X 
> protocol drawing primitives are a very bad match.  So, it really is a good 
> time to take a look around and see what APIs we should actively support.
> 
> Remember that most of the X11 design effort went into building a networked
> window system; the graphics piece of the core protocol was never expected 
> to survive this long.
> 

Exactly so: I remember the basic face to face X11 design meetings.
Graphics for business applications was all that was intended.
The hope was replacement within 5 years by something better.
As it is, we put too much in, by people who understood systems
and window systems, but not graphics.

We were smart enough not to touch a 3D API.

But then everything got frozen by the OpenGL/Phigs wars...
                              - Jim


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Jim Gettys <[email protected]>
HP Labs, Cambridge Research Laboratory