Re: Auto-discovery of 3D applications

2006-02-06 Thread Felix Kühling
One more show-stopper for auto-discovery of OpenGL apps is the fact that some applications load libGL dynamically at run-time. I haven't got any feedback to my GL application survey, but at the moment I see a built-in database (does lookup-table sound less scary?) of known GL applications as the

Re: Auto-discovery of 3D applications

2006-02-06 Thread Philipp Klaus Krause
Felix Kühling schrieb: One more show-stopper for auto-discovery of OpenGL apps is the fact that some applications load libGL dynamically at run-time. I haven't got any feedback to my GL application survey, but at the moment I see a built-in database (does lookup-table sound less scary?) of

Re: Auto-discovery of 3D applications (was: 3D application survey for DRIconf)

2006-01-29 Thread Felix Kühling
Am Sonntag, den 29.01.2006, 14:00 -0800 schrieb Donnie Berkholz: Felix Kühling wrote: for the next version of DRIconf I'm working on a database of known applications that can be selected from a menu. This way users won't need to go through the confusion of finding out the correct executable

Re: Auto-discovery of 3D applications

2006-01-29 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Felix Kühling wrote: Yeah, but these are exactly the hard cases that are most confusing to users and that I'm trying to solve. Also some executables don't have very descriptive names, like fgfs for FlightGear. It's also impossible to sort auto-detected applications into meaningful categories.