On Sun, 2003-03-02 at 01:55, Jon Smirl wrote: > --- Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > People were saying that ten years ago. They were > > wrong then, and I suspect they are wrong now. > > Looking out five years wouldn't OpenGL 2.0+ make a > better core graphics API for Linux than XLIB? Hardware > is certainly trending towards the 3D model.
If you care which one of the two, your higher level abstraction is wrong IMHO. > I'd like to see Linux turn XFree inside out. Instead > of OpenGL/DRI being bolted onto X, bolt X onto > OpenGL/DRI. Radeon already uses DRI to do some of the rendering stuff when also doing 3D. You can choose to implement your XAA accelerations with 3D primitives, or you can go up a layer higher. There is definitely scope for a server which treats all the 2D objects as textures. It makes stuff like alpha a lot lot simpler but at a memory cost. ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
