Re: XFree86 5.0 TODO

regarding X transparency...


X-Transparency protocol extension
http://www.directfb.org/mailinglists/directfb-dev/2002/12-2002/msg00136.html
http://www.directfb.org/mailinglists/directfb-dev/2003/02-2003/msg00000.html

Alex

> > -----------------------------------------
> > 
> > Well,
> > 
> > As this forum is for discussing all X stuff, here goes with a few
> > notes
> > from an XFree86 Core Team meeting from a little while back. So in
> the
> > spirit of openness I thought I should discuss it here.
> > 
> > This is stuff that we can think of that needs doing for XFree86
> 5.0,
> > but
> > by no means is it limited to this list or even guarantee'ing
> anything
> > on the list will make it for 5.0.
> > 
> > So, to spark discussions, here it is....
> > 
> > 1. Redesign of XAA, so that multiple depth pixmaps can be stored in
> > offscreen
> > memory and the creation of a new directive - called the XAASurface.
> > There
> > will undoubtably be driver work involved to port to the new
> > interface.
> > The
> > techinical lead on this is Mark Vojkovich. I believe Mark has a
> > substantial
> > portion of this done, if not all.
> > 
> > 2. FBManager extensions. This still needs furthur thought to
> > encompass
> > the requirements of all bases, but, the DRI is one that needs much
> > more
> > flexible memory management of the framebuffer. Secondly, it's been 
> > requested before for linear allocation, rather than the current
> area 
> > allocation code for some Xv implementations.
> > 
> > 3. Xlib locale removal. By removing all the Xlc code from libX11
> and
> > see
> > if we can layer it on top of iconv. Need to discuss the advantages
> > and
> > disadvantages of such a task.
> > 
> > 4. DGA - do we leave in, or do we shelve it ?
> > 
> > 5. RandR. We now have rotation support, but not depth switching
> yet.
> > This
> > still needs to be done.
> > 
> > 6. PseudoColor emulation. Egbert Eich has written some preliminary
> > code
> > for this, and we're hoping he'll be able to release it soon.
> > 
> > 7. Hot Plugging of devices. Displays, Keyboards, Mice. This is
> > obviously
> > tricky when running multiple Xservers on the same machine. How do
> you
> > correlate which device is plugged in, to which Xserver etc. 
> > 
> > 8. Multiseat capability. Allowing multiple Xservers to run with
> > independent
> > graphics cards, keyboards and mice on the same machine.
> > 
> > 9. Xc/Xr - A postscript rendering library for the RENDER extension
> > replacing
> > Xlib drawing routines. 
> > 
> > 10. Window translucency.
> > 
> > 11. XFixes extension.
> > 
> > 12. Gamma corrected RENDER
> > 
> > 13. Potential DIX/DDX changes.
> > 
> > Any other topics, please bring up for discussion.
> > 
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