Re: XFree86 5.0 TODO

On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 09:27:04PM +0100, Egbert Eich wrote:
> Sven Luther writes:
>  > 
>  > For example, i did originally write the glint/pm3 driver to use the
>  > alpha channel for masking, but no app used it, and finally Alan rewrote
>  > it so that a color key is used, altough you loose one color, thing which
>  > would not have happened when using the alpha channel. You may well
>  > export as many attributes as you like, the apps need to be handling them
>  > all the same, so you have to upgrade the apps to take advantage of it.
>  > 
> This depends. The driver could also provide a short descritive string.
> An application not knowing the attribute could just display this
> string. Also knowing the type and range of the attribute's variable
> it has every information to display a suitable wiget element.
> I agree that there is still the i18n issue. But if the string
> cannot be found in a translation table it is better to display
> an English  string in US-ASCII than nothing.

BTW, how would these attributes be compatible with the config file
option ? Could it be possible to set them in the config file, or is it
unecessary as 5.0 will have no control file whatsoever and this is going
to replace it ?

Friendly,

Sven Luther