From 33bea964cae3791cc00173b62e82089168f87804 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?utf8?q?Kristian=20H=C3=B8gsberg?= Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 22:21:49 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] More NOTES. --- NOTES | 15 ++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/NOTES b/NOTES index f4534c2..429de30 100644 --- a/NOTES +++ b/NOTES @@ -13,9 +13,11 @@ as the panel or the desktop background. It is still designed with a windowed type of desktop in mind, as opposed to fullscreen-all-the-time type of interface. -Current trends goes towards less and less rendering in X server, -more hardware setup and management in kernel and shared libraries -allow code sharing without putting it all in a server. +Current trends goes towards less and less rendering in X server, more +hardware setup and management in kernel and shared libraries allow +code sharing without putting it all in a server. freetype, +fontconfig, cairo all point in this direction, as does direct +rendering mesa. Client allocates DRM buffers, draws decorations, and full window contents and posts entire thing to server along with dimensions. @@ -27,6 +29,11 @@ gcs/fonts, no nested windows. OpenGL is already direct rendered, pixman may be direct rendered which adds the cairo API, or cairo may gain a GL backend. +Could be a "shell" for launching gdm X server, user session servers, +safe mode xservers, graphics text console. From gdm, we could also +launch a rdp session, solid ice sessions. + + ISSUES: Include panel and desktop background in wayland? @@ -47,6 +54,8 @@ field if you don't have subwindows? synaptics, 3-button emulation, xkb, scim +changing screen resolution, adding monitors. + RMI the get_interface method is called on an object to get an object -- 2.7.4