AIGLX, metacity, nvidia and Xgl

[Alex Deucher]

On 2/24/06, Benjy Grogan <benjy.grogan at gmail.com> wrote:
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>
> On 2/23/06, David Reveman <davidr at novell.com> wrote:
> > I've been getting a lot of mail from people asking me about my thoughts
> > on AIGLX, the GL compositing work being done on metacity and nvidia's
> > xdevconf paper. Instead of replying to everyone individually, I though
> > I'd send a mail to the Xorg list.
>
> <snip>
> >
> > I've been developing Xgl in the open since November 2004. Only the last
> > few months have been behind closed doors. I can agree that this wasn't
> > the best thing but no architectural changes have been made during this
> > period, just a lot of hard work implementing missing functionality,
> > tracking down and fixing bugs in xgl and various other places in the x
> > server tree. We didn't drop a finished solution, we dropped a much
> > improved version, that's all.
> >
> > At the time the decision was made to stop push things into CVS for a
> > while, no one except me was really contributing to the project and the
> > testing and bug reports we got from the community didn't give us much.
> > If we had to make architectural changes or if the interest in
> > contributing to the project got bigger, the idea was always to open
> > development again.
> >
> > -David
> >
> >
> > [1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/RenderingProject/aiglx
> > [2]
> http://developer.nvidia.com/object/xdevconf_2006_presentations.html
>
>
> I would like to know what advantages Xgl or AIGLX will have other than the
> eye candy.  Will it be possible to develop an application that will use
> openGL and then be able to run the application remotely, as is currently
> possible with gnome applications?
>
>  Say if I were to develop a medical imaging application that allowed the
> user to traverse a human skull, would I be able to run this program remotely
> using Xgl, and only send GL commands using XML over the network?  Is XGL
> related to the XGL File Format Specification <http://www.xglspec.org/> ?
>
>  There has to be more to these next gen desktop technologies than eye candy.
>

Accelerated indirect rendering will allow you to accelerate remote
applications that are displaying on your local X server.  It should
also allow us to accelerate multi-head using DMX and glproxy.

Alex

>  Benji
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