Xegl lives!

[Jon Smirl]

On 5/24/05, Alan Coopersmith <Alan.Coopersmith at sun.com> wrote:
> Then perhaps it's just a perception problem - at the Xorg conference and
> in the mailing lists, so many of the discussions on this seem to center
> around kernel drivers and such that it really seems to be a Linux-only
> project.   I know I've had little interest in looking into it more because
> of that impression (not that I have spare time to contribute cycles to it
> as well as everything else I'm already doing) - if I've misunderstood this,
> then I'm sorry.
> 
> (And yes, I'm biased by getting paid to maintain an X server for a platform
>   which has far more cards with usable Xorg DDX'es than usable OpenGL drivers
>   at any level.   We're working to fix that as we can, but I can't see any
>   way we'll have enough coverage to be moving from a traditional DDX-based
>   X server to a OpenGL/EGL based X server anytime soon, so will likely
>   continue to devote most of the resources we have available for open source
>   X work to working on the existing Xorg code base.)

Sun will need to think about it's GUI strategy in world where Mac,
Linux and Windows (Longhorn) are all running full accelerated
composting and drawing systems. Once you play with a fully accelerated
system it is hard to go back - the differences in look and feel are
obvious.

-- 
Jon Smirl
jonsmirl at gmail.com