Re: OFFTOPIC: GGI and alternative GUIs and windowing systems in Linux -LONG

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Tue, 27 Jan 1998 23:14:30 +0000 (GMT)

> IMHO all that trouble can be avoided if some clean interface will be
> designed between high-level "thicker display" and X. If the original
> implementation will be capable of sitting at the top of X as a library on
> the client side *and* as a proxy on remote server side *and* as an
> extension to the X server, compatibility problem will be nonexistent, and

Thats precisely how OpenGL is done properly (as opposed to normally). There
is a GLX extension but if its not present you can fall back to client side
rendering

> easily, there will be no problem optimizing such horrors as, say, AWT --
> native methods of it will be implemented in that display as yet another
> server, and goodbye Motif-based JDK.

AWT maps well onto X11 except for some of the depth independant stuff and
thats lacking X11 access to the latest "convert and scale" type hardware
facilities.