Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2003 12:16:24 -0800 From: Bakul Shah <bakul@bitblocks.com> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr>, "Pedro F. Giffuni" <giffunip@yahoo.com>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: GGI (was: Project Status) Message-ID: <200302052016.PAA26626@repulse.cnchost.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 05 Feb 2003 11:23:54 PST." <3E4164CA.3B1E7C30@mindspring.com>
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> 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
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