From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Feb 5 12:16:47 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E68B37B406 for ; Wed, 5 Feb 2003 12:16:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from repulse.cnchost.com (repulse.concentric.net [207.155.248.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C0AEB43F79 for ; Wed, 5 Feb 2003 12:16:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bakul@bitblocks.com) Received: from bitblocks.com (adsl-209-204-185-216.sonic.net [209.204.185.216]) by repulse.cnchost.com id PAA26626; Wed, 5 Feb 2003 15:16:34 -0500 (EST) [ConcentricHost SMTP Relay 1.15] Message-ID: <200302052016.PAA26626@repulse.cnchost.com> To: Terry Lambert Cc: Rahul Siddharthan , "Pedro F. Giffuni" , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: GGI (was: Project Status) In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 05 Feb 2003 11:23:54 PST." <3E4164CA.3B1E7C30@mindspring.com> Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2003 12:16:24 -0800 From: Bakul Shah Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > X has forever suffered from fixed cell rendering. GGI will not fix > this; changing X would. Several companies have done this in the > past: NeXT, with NeXTStep, Sony with NeWS, etc. Terry, your memory needs some sort of ECC. It was Sun who did NeWS (Network extensible Window System). SGI too picked it up for a while. IIRC Sony had a machine called News (with whatever cApItaLization) but that is a horse of a different color. If by fixed cell rendering you mean one-to-one mapping between a character and a glyph (grpahical shape) I agree. The situation with Indic scripts is considerably more complex where multiple characters can map to a single glyph, where there are many more glyphs than characters, the glyph of a char depends on the position of the char in a word and so on. But without kernel based graphics support I don't see any hope of getting truly first class support for Indic scripts. > > ridiculously slow machines. SGI became a graphics powerhouse using X. IIRC SGI used NeWS before X but I am not 100% certain. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message