EGL_MESA_screen_surface proposal

[Brian Paul]

Jon Smirl wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 09:21:30 -0700, Brian Paul
> <brian.paul at tungstengraphics.com> wrote:
> 
>>I guess I'm not sure what you're getting at though.
> 
> 
> Say I'm using a desktop windowing system implemented on top of XGL. It
> has an HDTV projector hooked up to the second head of the card. Is it
> useful to have a UI that says force that head into 1080i or 720p?

Sure.


> The UI under X for doing this is to use keypad +/- to cycle through
> all of the modes. That model is complicated when multiple heads are
> involved.
> 
> To build a UI for choosing the mode I need a list of mode names,
> either that or or they can choose from a list with all of the
> attribute/value pairs but a lot of people won't understand the pairs.

OK, I see what you want.  But somehow it just doesn't feel right to 
export that information through the EGL API.  Can we defer that for now?

-Brian