Around 17 o'clock on May 6, Jon Smirl wrote: > A proposal has been made that OpenGL be promoted as the primary base graphics > API on Linux. Then things like Cairo and the xserver be implemented on top of > OpenGL.
I respectfully disagree with this plan. OpenGL should be the sole API for accessing the graphics card for systems which support it, but I encourage application developers to continue coding to the X API so that there aren't unexpected "surprises" when run on a machine which doesn't support OpenGL. That the X server will use OpenGL to talk to these graphics cards is an implementation detail which shouldn't be visible to applications. -keith
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