X11 extensions are not dead
X11 extensions are not dead
Posted Jun 3, 2010 16:26 UTC (Thu) by Spudd86 (subscriber, #51683)In reply to: X11 extensions are not dead by jreiser
Parent article: Danjou: Thoughts and rambling on the X protocol
Well some of those extensions have wound up replacing large portions of the core protocol (for example XRender pretty much replaces all the stuff related to drawing since nobody wants to do the kind of drawing the core protocol supports anymore)