Why not have X-Windows store the COMPRESSED image?

Why not have X-Windows store the COMPRESSED image?

Posted Jun 29, 2006 2:41 UTC (Thu) by guinan (subscriber, #4644)
In reply to: Why not have X-Windows store the COMPRESSED image? by dwheeler
Parent article: Interview: Jim Gettys (Part I)

There was an X Image Extention (XIE) some time ago, which basically
did what you're describing, but it got deleted from the tree in
X11R6.7.0.

I googled but couldn't find a definitive reason why it was deleted,
but I gather it wasn't popular with some developers.

---

(Log in to post comments)