On Fri, 2006-02-03 at 12:38 +0900, Carsten Haitzler wrote: > > true. the other suggestion here is to use xrender pictures. it is a point. did > think about it, but then decidced against for 2 reasons. > > 1. it allows the spec to be implemented on ANY XSERVER - even that ancient > labtam monochrome 1bit terminal sitting on a 10mbit coax network. it will > work.
I don't think RGBA tray icons are very relevant on that kind of hardware, so I don't think this is a valid argument against using Render. [...] > but do we want a spec like systray to RELY on currently "new" > extensions > that are in fact still mostly experimental even as of today (xrender > acceleration is iffy - on a god day still).? i would dearly like such > a spec to > work even on old xservers embedded into x terminal thin clients in labs or on > old sun workstations etc. ? I dont see the quality of current Render implementations have much relevance to the question of using Render Pictures for holding image data either. Matthias Matthias _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
