On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 12:33:03AM -0600, Brian Vetter wrote:
> I'm new to Spice and have been looking over the spice_gtk sources, trying to 
> piece together all that is there. I saw that in the common directory, there 
> are a collection of gl*.[ch] files look to be opengl client rendering 
> services, presumably used instead of the sw*[ch] and Windows gdi files. 
> However, I didn't see any options for building the client to use this opengl 
> option. 
> 
> So are the gl* files remnants of an experiment or old code that is dormant/to 
> be cut, or is it experimental code for some future version of spice-gtk? 
> Anyone care to share the history lesson there (or the future plans)?

Historical, used at some point, performance wasn't better then gdi/cairo
(I'm not saying it from memory, just parroting what I heard).

> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Brian
> 
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