Why do they need 3D?
Why do they need 3D?
Posted Nov 4, 2011 19:58 UTC (Fri) by nwnk (subscriber, #52271)In reply to: Why do they need 3D? by raven667
Parent article: Rawhide gets GNOME Shell for all display types
Also the 2D APIs essentially ignore the entire question of presentation. There's no way to do a tear-free compositor with cairo, without hoisting yourself onto a higher-level API. And in X, the API for doing that is GLX; there's no other even remotely competent presentation API in X.