On Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 11:21:20PM -0500, Dimitrie O. Paun wrote: > On Mon, 28 Jan 2002, Gavriel State wrote: > > > Now, the interesting thing is this: Once we have a GDI renderer, we can > > eliminate a *huge* amount of DIBSection cruft from the X11 driver. Currently > > Wine goes through astounding manipulations to get X to draw things for > > us when we should be doing it ourselves. This is very slow, and affects > > more apps than you might think (ie: WordPerfect). > > I know that we've had our share of problems from the lack of such > renderer. Currently, we ask X to do the work for us, as you describe. Now, > XFree86 is licensed under a Wine-compatible license. Why can't we simply > get the XFree86 code directly into Wine, to get our own renderer?
NOW is the time to sync with ReactOS, if not big duplicate effort will occur. regards, Jakob
