On Tue, 17 Dec 2002, Andreas Beck wrote: > 4. Take every fscking application you find nice and provide it with > a LibGGI target. Show maintainers why LibGGI is a cool thing to have. > See my example about why GGI for mplayer rocks.
This is indeed very important, IMO. There are lots of apps that have stale or incorrectly implemented GGI targets. That makes LibGGI look bad to packagers and in general. BTW, one of the most important apps to have a GGI target, X, needs some more work. Filip recently updated the old XGGI to newer X source files, but IMO even though the Xfree86 driver module system is presenting major obstacles by insisting on probing a hardware device, GGI and GII drivers for X that use the same configuration file environment as the standard XFree86 package would be much more readily accepted. In addition, if we could manage to make the GGI X driver such that the X server can be moved from one GGI display to another on the fly, that would be a feature that would make the driver and GGI very desirable. Whether this is possible depends heavily on whether the X code will allow the framebuffer base to be changed or whether it sloppily copies the base into GC's for it's extensions. -- Brian
