Re: [Fonts]Re: [Render] Re: Removing core support from Xft

[Brian Stell]

Steve Swales wrote:
> ...
> But every glyph would have to be sent over the wire as a pixmap, every time it's
> drawn.  Performance would be so bad, particularly over the wire, that it would
> be as good as broken...  or am I missing something?

Let me state the issue from a different perspective.

  Remote X is (in my experience) very rare, probably under 1%

  Local X is (in my experience) very common, probably 99%

So...

  Should X continue with a model that makes improvements to 
  the common case very slow/difficult so that the rare case 
  preforms okay?

or

  Should X move to a model that makes it much easier to add
  improvements to the common case and then require the rare
  case to be handled as a special case?

-- 
Brian Stell
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