Re: XFree86 5.0 TODO

 
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From: [email protected]
Date: Thursday, March 20, 2003 10:45:04 AM
To: [email protected]; Ruth Ivimey-Cook
Subject: Re: [forum] XFree86 5.0 TODO
 
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On Thursday 20 March 2003 16:16, Ruth Ivimey-Cook wrote:
> >9. Xc/Xr - A postscript rendering library for the RENDER extension
> >replacing Xlib drawing routines.
>
> What status is this? Is there a demand? How does it differ in capability
> from the Display PostScript code.

I think MacOS X does most of the animation stuff with postscript (the 
minimizing of windows for example). The usage of such features need to be 
very transparently and easily made through the toolkits. Don't know any 
specifics but I think there is a demand to get such cool features like OS X 
has.

Ralf

Yeah but Ralf that's all proprietary code, so the only way to get them is by
observation on one of their expensive machines and reverse-engineer it.
I don't think that will be an easy task, since while AAPL OS X is now
software implemented
it's also sloooooooooooooooooooow.  To really get an audience to pay for
their
gig they're gonna have to go to a hardware based implementation and since 
they are using NVDA  for their graphics hardware I think that this would be
quite
insurmountable.  The only solution I see is that ATI reverse it and use it
as a
competitive edge and I don't know if ATYT is thinking that way.

georgina