Re: A strawman proposal for X.org & XFree86.org

Alan Coopersmith wrote:

> Vadim Plessky wrote:
>
>> On Sunday 30 March 2003 03:31, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
>
>
>> Som epeople mentioned that we need to through away Xlib in favour of 
>> Xr/Xc,
>
>
> I've not seen that and I from what I've seen Xr/Xc aren't supposed to 
> be a
> complete replacement for Xlib - just a different rendering model.  
> (There's
> much more to Xlib than just the drawing routines.)
>
But what are the advantages over OpenGL which I have anyway and which is 
here and hardware accelerated now? Render/Xr/Xc it loos to me like a 
subset of OpenGL. Is this a other sign of the NIH syndrom? The 
differentation between  2D and 3D is IMHO not more nessesary. There is 
also OpenGL ES for the embedded sector. I think it's the better way to 
use OpenGL for drawing (plus a high level wrapper around it)  so there 
don't must be written two drivers. In this way you could mix 2D and 3D 
much more easily.

Marco