From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Mar 8 23:23:17 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from eagle.phc.igs.net (eagle.phc.igs.net [207.210.17.201]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EAC5814C21 for ; Mon, 8 Mar 1999 23:23:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from eagle@eagle.phc.igs.net) Received: (from eagle@localhost) by eagle.phc.igs.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id CAA01316; Tue, 9 Mar 1999 02:19:18 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from eagle) Message-Id: <199903090719.CAA01316@eagle.phc.igs.net> Date: Tue, 9 Mar 1999 02:19:18 -0500 (EST) From: eagle@phc.igs.net Subject: Re: A BSD-licensed GUI toolkit? To: tlambert@primenet.com Cc: reg@shale.csir.co.za, asmodai@wxs.nl, brian@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199903072325.QAA23208@usr09.primenet.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 7 Mar, Terry Lambert wrote: > This is almost right. > > However, I think the future doesn't have X in it at all. X is a huge > behemoth. It is too large. an X server has to have too much in the > way of resources for it to be useful. > > > Terry Lambert > terry@lambert.org Think about writing a X application that's not text dependant with the style sheet concept, while a set of widgets based upon this idea would possibly be a good idea, it IMHO would need to be included in a more general purpose toolkit. One other thought I had on Terry's idea, actually two but anyway. If we could include a xprotocol/xlib compatibility layer this idea .... one possible method of improving performance over the vnc protocol would to base it upon polygons instead of rectangles, this should reduce the number of raw pixels drawn by quite a few depending on the server side algorithims to implement this capability.. I have a few other ideas' but I'll let them rest until I see what terry has to say rob To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message