What XFree *really* needs is much more data compression when sending data to a remote display. It seems XFree is being used more and more for diskless clients and to display remote screens. The X protocol uses alot of Bandwidth when dealing with *alot* of clients. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Keith Packard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Keith Packard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, November 30, 2002 10:19 PM Subject: Re: [Xpert]XFIXES extension proposal
> Around 3 o'clock on Dec 1, James Hawtin wrote: > > > The only problem with the fixes extension will people use it, as they > > will have to write the code twice so it supports "legancy" ie not Xfree86 > > systems. (thinking of selection tracking here) > > That's been the argument against such extensions over the last 15 years, > and it's certainly valid as far as it goes, but I think we can now look > toward more rapid adoption of extensions in the general population, > certainly rapidly enough to provide incentive for application developers > to support the new mechanisms in addition to the old. > > > As kludges exist for some of these fixes, a compatibility library could be > > made so people who wrote code in the "new" way, would have some kind of > > support on other systems, but still could write things "clean", in the > > case of selection tracking, it would do the polling, but return events as > > if the XFIXES was there. > > Perhaps that would be possible at the toolkit level, but down at the > protocol library level, there's no flow of control to manage timeouts and > the like. As XFree86 doesn't really have control over the dominate > toolkits, we'll have to see what those groups manage to implement, > although we might give them some suggestions. > > Keith Packard XFree86 Core Team HP Cambridge Research Lab > > > _______________________________________________ > Xpert mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert > _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
