Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Mon 1st Jul 2002 17:50 UTC
David Dawes is maybe the most active XFree86 developer and he is also the lead founder of the project. He works for Tungsten Graphics, which is the main company working on the XFree, DRI and Mesa codebases today. We are happy to host an interview with David, discussing the present and future of XFree86 project. Update: Still confused how a VSYNCed desktop look like? Read here.
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Well, you're advocating the low-level approach, which is fine - if you want to manipulate pixels.
But we are moving towards a higher and higher level of abstraction. Taking advantage of hardware that accelerates these higher levels is going to be increasingly difficult.
If all you have is pixels, and you have an imaginary videocard that can accelerate, let's say, font rendering - how are you going to take advantage of that? You'd have to create an extention, and make sure all libraries that use fonts use that extention.
Repeat that for every advance in graphics hardware. Painful.
I think I haven't explained myself very well actually. The example I gave with Fresco is not the best analogy because it's scope is slightly different.
With Fresco it's actually the entire GUI that moves server-side. The underlying "graphics library" can indeed be very dumb.