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On Sat, 2005-08-20 at 19:46 -0400, Michel Dänzer wrote:
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">On Fri, 2005-08-19 at 11:55 +0200, Christian Parpart wrote:</FONT>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">> Will it be possible to do such amazing things w/o hardware-OpenGL-based </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> X server?</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Yes. The major toolkits seem to be moving to GL backends, and there are</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">proofs of concept of GL based compositing managers. I'm wondering what</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">effect these trends will have on the usefulness of Xgl, has anybody else</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">considered that?</FONT>
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It's better to have GL backend at the lower possible level, which is X server level, so that every X11 application will take advantage of it.
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