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what about....what about....Posted Feb 11, 2008 20:45 UTC (Mon) by nix (subscriber, #2304)In reply to: what about.... by jamesh Parent article: LCA: Two talks on the state of X
Why can't Xft (or Xrender) make this check for you at client connection time? There's really no excuse for requiring users to know this sort of black magic just because they want to connect to an old X server.
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what about.... Posted Feb 12, 2008 2:31 UTC (Tue) by jamesh (guest, #1159) [Link] Well, running an application locally against an old RENDER-less X server gives reasonable performance, so it isn't clear that always disabling anti-aliasing is the best default on such servers -- it really depends on the bandwidth and latency. I guess the real answer to your question is that it isn't a high priority of the developers. They are putting their effort into improving performance when used against non-obsolete X servers (effort that helps in the remote X case as well). Given that there is only so much they can do, I don't blame them.
what about.... Posted Feb 12, 2008 8:19 UTC (Tue) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link] Oh yes, agreed: this is a whinge that's getting rapidly less important over time. Probably against the installed base of X servers it's entirely insignificant by now, not least because exceed and other incredibly obsolete X11R4/5 Windows-based X servers have been comprehensively outcompeted by Cygwin's X server :)
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