Re: Some perspective from the cheap seats...

Havoc Pennington writes:
 > IMHO, one thing X.org should do if it wants to reimagine itself is
 > expand to include toolkit/desktop level concerns and establish
 > contacts with toolkit and desktop developers. X should really be
 > developed to meet the needs of the UI, not the other way around.  That
 > goes from the top down: user -> apps -> desktop -> toolkit -> X -> OS.
 > 

Havoc, 

I do agree with you. However you most not neglect issues t
hat are not immediately visible from the UI point of
view: you have to consider how you can map a funtionality
you propose onto the HW. 

In the past this has not always been taken into consideration.
I hope Mark Vojkovitch will give more details on this but
to give you two examples:

* Alpha blended cursors have been added with no consideration 
  for OpenGL.

* The RENDER extension is nearly impossible to accelerate fully.

Egbert.