Re: A Call For Open Governance Of X Development

On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 07:23:28AM -0500, Alan Cox wrote:
> > committed to continuing to work on older X servers, and nobody is
> > going to go the X12 route (break back compat). So new stuff is always
> > either a library you can install regardless of your X server
> > (e.g. fontconfig) or an extension that we use only optionally
> > (e.g. RENDER).
> 
> Both Gtk and X11 are going to break horribly in the next few years and
> there is going to be a need for X.org, XFree or someone to actually fix
> the standards to allow over 65535 pixels width and height. Otherwise you
> are not going to be able to run X11 on your walls or on ultra fine
> resolution displays.
> 

GTK uses 32-bit integers for most things now, I would say "require a
couple days fixing" rather than "break horribly" - unless the problems 
go way beyond integer ranges, e.g. perhaps having a 16 gigabyte pixmap 
will cause problems. ;-)

Havoc