Re: Re: FW: XFree86 future

> the case on the X11 desktop. Sometimes I can watch the system redrawing a 
> window. The X11 desktop just doesn't feel good. That's not only a XFree 
> problem but a general problem of X11. I've used several X11 implementations 
> (in Irix, AIX, Solaris) and it's always the same.  

Its an implementation issue, although an understandable one at the time
it was made. The server can cache offscreen areas of the display and keep
them up to date which would fix most of this and also make alpha blending
rather more feasible.

Its very hard to alpha blend windows over each other when the server
doesn't remember what is underneath.

> Yes, but that would mean that Qt and Gtk would have to be ported to OpenGL 
> before it has any meaning to the enduser. That might solve the performance 
> problem, but it seems like a very hacky solution.   

Not neccessarily. You can build an opengl canvas (as the rasterman did)
you can also use 3D operations to build a 2D server.

Alan