Re: protocol enhancements

On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 08:18:30AM -0800, [email protected] wrote:
> > I'm sure that there'll
> > be other issues exposed as we start working towards this.  I'd like
> > to see at a minimum that the X server internals, and any proposed
> > re-writes thereof in the context of 5.0, are prepared for this and
> > for deeper and non-integer pixel types.  I also think that bumping
> > the protocol minor revision should be explored as a backward-compatible
> > mechanism for enhancing the core protocol.  For those who don't
> > know, the X11 protocol has a so-far unused provision for a
> > client/server protocol handshake, and this type of detail can be
> > embedded in Xlib.  There's no need to go to "X12" to do this, or
> > to keep tacking on miscellaneous extensions to deal with what are
> > core protocol issues.
> > 
> 
> Yes, the core protocol needs work.  Deeper pixels seem *far* more urgent 
> to me than the coordinate space, and something most people will see much 
> sooner than display walls of size and resolution that the coordinate space 
> is an issue.  There, it is within the next doubling time: e.g. right around 
> the corner. Most people already have 32 bits/pixel.

BTW, are 10/10/10/2 RGBA framebuffers already supported now ?

Friendly,

Sven Luther