New guy

Hey!

 

Well, I'm a C coder with some time to spend coding widgets and whatever else
you need.  I'd really love to see some hardware acceleration in this puppy.
Is anybody a real expert or have any knowledge as to the workings of XFree86
binary display drivers?  It would be awesome to be able to load these up as
modules (via a glue module, of course) and use the pre-existing X drivers
for Y!  I would think there would be some low-level blitting, primitive
drawing, or RGBA graphics combining code in these X display drivers, right?
If my assumptions are correct about this (which they probably aren't - so
someone please correct me), I could take on this task as well and we could
really get off the ground with Y.

 

Another thing, I've become very proficient in C# and .NET programming over
the last couple months and I'd really love to develop a Windows.Forms
implementation on Y.  This would, of course, be using the Mono libraries, as
I find DotGNU to be too slow IMHO.  The only problem with this is that I've
noticed a few people here complaining about keeping dependencies down, and
well, Mono is a big one at that.  We could make it independent of the Y
server and implement it as a module for users to load, if they wish.  Also,
I see that this would have to be put off until the 40-some-odd widgets are
developed and tested.

 

BTW, I'm not a Microsoft-lover by any means.  In fact, I generally despise
them.  However, they have developed one hell of a nice platform and I really
enjoy developing in it.  I've also been following the Mono project's
development and am very impressed with their progress in implementing nearly
all of the namespaces that Microsoft provides!  Any thoughts on ideas
discussed here?

 

-- James Dunne