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List: freedesktop-xdg
Subject: Re: systray specification...
From: Matthias Clasen <mclasen () redhat ! com>
Date: 2006-02-03 4:27:08
Message-ID: 1138940832.2683.7.camel () localhost ! localdomain
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On Fri, 2006-02-03 at 12:38 +0900, Carsten Haitzler wrote:
>
> true. the other suggestion here is to use xrender pictures. it is a point. did
> think about it, but then decidced against for 2 reasons.
>
> 1. it allows the spec to be implemented on ANY XSERVER - even that ancient
> labtam monochrome 1bit terminal sitting on a 10mbit coax network. it will work.
I don't think RGBA tray icons are very relevant on that kind of
hardware, so I don't think this is a valid argument against using
Render.
[...]
> but do we want a spec like systray to RELY on currently "new"
> extensions
> that are in fact still mostly experimental even as of today (xrender
> acceleration is iffy - on a god day still).? i would dearly like such
> a spec to
> work even on old xservers embedded into x terminal thin clients in
labs or on
> old sun workstations etc. ?
I dont see the quality of current Render implementations have much
relevance to the question of using Render Pictures for holding image
data either.
Matthias
Matthias
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