AIGLX, metacity, nvidia and Xgl

[Dave Airlie]

>
> 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?

you must've missed what accelerated indirect GLX does, SGI have been
doing it for years, nvidia for quite a while, it allows remote GL
applications to use the local display accelerated..

>
>  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/> ?

No.
You were doing fine until you mentioned XML, that ends all discussion :-)

Dave.