Well, I'm afraid I don't understand you fully. Rendering is done on server, right ? GCs are stored in server's memory, right ? What are you proposing ? X protocol extension or client-side solution ?
Fall back to standard X proto? The point is that this uses standard X proto
except for these new functions to set extra GC parameters. If these extra
Well, I see. You want to simplify usage of extended capabilities, like alpha and AA'ed text. What I'm thinking , however, is in most cases it's more desirable to throw away old X-primitives-using code completely, and use newfunctions aren't available, then you can't have AA fonts or translucency too bad, but the drawing code is still the same unlike with KludgeRender.
API instead - XRender allows some things to be implemented much more efficiently. (Yes, I'm a firm believer in XRender's capabilities and general ideas :-)
(While it might be possible to fully emulate even this API in client side
libaries, there can be absolutely no need to emulate AA and some uses of translucency could be replaced with use of stipple patterns.)
-- P.S. Just curious - how old are you ? With all the best, yarick at relex dot ru
