Re: xfree will be the best....

Around 17 o'clock on Apr 6, Keith Whitwell wrote:

> As soon as any vendor makes hardware with a 3d engine capable of this stuff, 
> the first thing they'll do is export it as an OpenGL extension.

That'll be cool; we'll have another path to accelerated 2D graphics
then.

Applications can't depend on Render, OpenGL or any extension as they must
be able to run on old X servers that have none of them.  To make this
easier, I'm helping build application libraries that mask the underlying
system -- Xft and Xc both expose an API independent of the mechanism used
to draw the graphics.  It would be interesting to see these targeted at
an OpenGL backend.

-keith