Re: Why do we need a new standalone 2D drawing API?
Sean Middleditch <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.freedesktop.xserver |
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| Organization | AwesomePlay Productions, Inc. |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On Tue, 2003-11-25 at 18:45, Jon Smirl wrote: > Before this gets totally lost in the other thread, let's start a new one.... > > Why do we need a new standalone 2D drawing API? The OpenGL API has been > standardized, published in books, taught in classes, widely implemented, etc. > What is so awful about the OpenGL 2D API that requires designing a completely > new API? Everyone keeps saying it is lousy, but what are the reasons? Because OpenGL is a crappy 2D API. Nobody wants to use it for 2D. Even apps that make heavy use of OpenGL end up writing huge wrappers to get 2D work done. Application developers will reject having OpenGL shoved down their throats, and will either continue using the old classic X, or just write a big wrapper for it anyhow. That just wastes everybody's time for absolutely no good reason other than, "We don't feel like giving you a usable 2D API, just OpenGL." Apps today already have the full option of using OpenGL. Heck, they've had the option for years. Why do you think none of them chose it? -- Sean Middleditch <[email protected]> AwesomePlay Productions, Inc.