Re: Reengineering X applications

2004-05-12 Thread Gian Filippo Pinzari
Suresh wrote: In the paper Profiling the X Protocol by John Daskin Pat Hanrahan, Its is given that most X messages trains are less than 100 bytes and since the TCP/IP protocol adds 48 bytes of header information, this is a bigh overhead, (and hence he has suggested using Compressed Serial IP over

Re: Reengineering X applications

2004-05-11 Thread Gian Filippo Pinzari
Jim Gettys wrote: Lots of useful information can be found in: http://keithp.com/~keithp/talks/usenix2003/ If we do everything that should be done, we can eliminate about 90% of the round trips, ultimately. Hi Jim, did you have the chance of looking at NX since the last time we discussed this

Re: Reengineering X applications

2004-05-11 Thread Gian Filippo Pinzari
Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote: Has anyone come across X applications re-engineered for low bandwidth networks, This in the context of thin clients. Low bandwidth or high latency ? This is the usual response you can expect when asking this question. Bandwidth and latency are part of the same

Re: Reengineering X applications

2004-05-11 Thread Gian Filippo Pinzari
Jim Gettys wrote: Fixing in a proxy things that can/should be fixed elsewhere is a bandaid. Bandaids are useful, however; that doesn't mean we shouldn't fix the X and/or how the X protocol is being used. I don't see why, by saying that NX is good, I necessa- rily would imply that X must not be

Re: -rpath not used under Linux

2004-01-21 Thread Gian Filippo Pinzari
David Dawes wrote: I don't have any objections to doing this on Linux. As I said, we already do it on a range of other platforms and I'm not sure why Linux is something of an exception in this regard. Does anyone have a good reason to not do this? In NX we use alternate versions of libX11,

Dealing with images

2003-12-07 Thread Gian Filippo Pinzari
From: Gian Filippo Pinzari [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: General discussion about the Xouvert X server [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sunday 07 December 2003 05:05, Herbert Snorrason wrote: Now the question is: Who won't want it? PNG is in nearly every way *the* lossless raster format. Nearly everyone with X

Re: Dealing with images

2003-12-07 Thread Gian Filippo Pinzari
by ourselves ;-). Kind regards, /Gian Filippo Pinzari. ___ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel