Re: GGI driver

Dear diary, on Mon, May 26, 2003 at 03:12:35PM CEST, I got a letter,
where "Sergey V. Karpov" <[email protected]> told me, that...
> Hi Petr!

Hi,

> On Mon, 26 May 2003, Petr Baudis wrote:
> 
> > > Oh no.  Virtual devices are completely wrong solution (and its
> > > implementation in links2 is too ugly) - correct one is tabbed browsing. So
> > > all this virtual devices soon will be removed completely.
> >
> > I think they should not go until links will have support for multiple graphical
> > instances communicating together. Tabs don't provide separate space for ie.
> > dialog boxes so only part of the state is preserved. (That's completely right
> > to tabs, just that tabs and virtual devices are slightly different stuff.)
> 
> Hey, we already have this feature! At least for drivers able to open
> several _true_ devices (i.e. windows in X) for one driver, as we
> really just open new window of existing links instance instead of
> starting new one - like in text mode but with some limitations as may have
> only one graphics driver at a time (braindead twibright design,
> global variable for graphics driver), so it is impossible to interoperate
> between different X-servers :-(

And the point of virtual devices was to accomplish the same outside of window
systems...? Or that is at least how I understood it.

Kind regards,

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ready to try a full symphony. The man said, "But Mozart, didn't you write a
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