[RFC] RandR 1.3 properties

[Jim Gettys]

On Tue, 2008-10-28 at 19:51 +0100, Matthias Hopf wrote:

> - Apparently there are only 8, 16, and 32bit integers available as
>   property types. Having ATOMs and FLOATs would add semantics, which
>   could help in some cases. But if this implies some changes throughout
>   the system, I don't think this is helpful. If it's basically xrandr,
>   it would be easy.
> 

We avoided float/doubles in the core protocol since at the time, the
world had not agreed that IEEE was the way to go (e.g. original VAXen
and Cray's used other formats).

There is still the byte-ordering/where the exponent is problem with
floating point formats; but at least the world has agreed on a FP
representation in registers and how FP computations get done.  Of
course, they still have the usual precision issues.
                         - Jim

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