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Quoting Keith Packard <[email protected]>:
> The only functionality currently missing from the extension is some kind
> of image transport mechanism to replace PutImage. The semantics of that
> operation are easy enough to specify in terms of the fundemental Render
> primitive, but there are questions about image encoding and precisely how
> to pass all of the existing picture parameters that no-one has spent the
> necessary time to figure out.
Just FYI, I think we spent the necessary time to find out how to
transport generic image encodings in X protocol, and infact we
already do this. Altough it has not been implemented inside RENDER
and is probably too NX specific, I think it can be a good example
on how to build such functionality.
/Gian Filippo Pinzari.