Al Tobey wrote: > > I read some of the stuff about "Longhorn" (it's cheese!) - looks like M$ > wants to do make all 2d operations into texture operations in 3d mode. > No more 2d/3d mode switching issues. > http://www.tomshardware.com/business/02q2/020417/winhec11-05.html > > My thought is that X could do this without disturbing applications much, > right? I've looked at some of the 3d window managers in the past - are > they texturing applications onto GL surfaces?
There are hw implementations of the XFree86 render extension which use the texturing engine to do their magic. Unfortunately 2d/3d switching is pretty much the same problem as 3d/3d switching between different clients, so it's not really a win for us. Keith _______________________________________________________________ Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference August 25-28 in Las Vegas -- http://devcon.sprintpcs.com/adp/index.cfm _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
