Re: DIB engine

[Alexandre Julliard]

Gavriel State  writes:
> The DIB engine is a long way from being finished, however.  There are some major
> missing features - text rendering, for example.  If the DIB engine is integrated
> in such a way that it completely replaces X rendering for DIBSections, it will
> work poorly for many applications, and would be less likely to get used and
> improved.

Of course the counter argument is that if it visibly breaks something
it's more likely to make people care...
> With the current architecture, it can be improved on a completely incremental
> basis.

True; OTOH it's also easier to pick the right architecture while there
is little code written, than once it's being used all over the place
inside the x11 driver.