X12 (was: X at OLS) [LWN.net]

X12 (was: X at OLS)

Posted Jul 23, 2004 15:39 UTC (Fri) by MathFox (subscriber, #6104)
In reply to: X at OLS by elanthis
Parent article: X at OLS

Do we need suport for fixed size bitmapped fonts (only?) 256 colour palettes? The whole set of pixel or/and/not operations?
With a modern graphics card you'ld want antialiassed scalable fonts, an RGBalpha colour model, colour blending, etc. Some of these are in current X11 expensions and should be moved to the X12 core. Some of the current X11 core stuff should be dropped and moved to a compatability library. Keith has some ideas that require deep modifications of the protocol.

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X12 (was: X at OLS)

Posted Jul 23, 2004 17:19 UTC (Fri) by bradfitz (subscriber, #4378) [Link]

There's no advantage to having something "in the core". The reason X11 hasn't become X12 is because X11 adapts wonderfully to new extensions as they come and go. You make fun of the bitwise and/or/not operations now, but we'll be making fun of the current state of graphics in another decade.

Why do we want today's cutting edge (tomorrow's crap) "in the core"?