Around 13 o'clock on Dec 17, Jonathan Rockway wrote:
> Remote X is very important, and very widely used. Network > transparency is what makes X unique and useful. If you don't want > that overhead check out DirectFB or whatever that other windowing > system project is called. This was one of the prime motivators for the Render extension. Applications were already doing many of the things Render is built for, but without server-side support running them over the wire is essentially impossible. Render makes client-side font management perform better over the wire than server-side font management. Applications have been using client-side fonts for a long time. All that this Xft change does is acknowledge this in a more formal way. Desktops that incorporate Render support will be able to accelerate this operation; legacy desktops will have somewhat slower support. Not that client-side fonts have ever been a significant performance issue for existing applications; the only care needed is to avoid round trips -- you might not want to enable anti-aliasing when running to that ancient X terminal; regular bitmap text will run fast enough. It's time to admit that server-side fonts have never been sufficient for any but the most rudementary of applications and move on. Keith Packard XFree86 Core Team Compaq Cambridge Research Lab _______________________________________________ Render mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/render
