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List:       linux-kernel
Subject:    Re: OFFTOPIC: GGI and alternative GUIs and windowing systems in Linux
From:       "Adam D. Moss" <adam () uunet ! pipex ! com>
Date:       1998-01-28 11:06:04
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Alan Cox:
>> There is, I think, still room for bumming X implementations and protocols
>> a bit before giving up on it.
>
>Plenty of it. Adding support for acceleration of image scaling, and video
>scaling would help too.

I completely agreed, and suggested almost exactly that to the X people
a couple of years ago (Ralph Swick specifically, IIRC).

The response was, 'that's kinda what PEX is meant for'.

But now PEX is largely an ex-parrot for one reason or another,
OpenGL is lovely but quite heavyweight and doesn't slot into the
X architecture seamlessly (unless you have an SGI, and then only
to an extent), and a few extentions to the drawable featureset
would go down very nicely.

XCopyScaledArea(display, src, dest, gc, src_x, src_y, src_width,
src_height, dest_x, dest_y, dest_width, dest_height)
      Display *display;
      Drawable src, dest;
      GC gc;
      int src_x, src_y;
      int dest_x, dest_y;
      int src_width, src_height;
      int dest_width, dest_height;

That sort of thing.

Better if it were an official X extension than an xf86 one, certainly.
And long overdue.

Cheers,
--Adam

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