Re: DRAFT PROPOSAL: Port of „Consumer JRE“ features to Unix/X11 platforms

[Clemens Eisserer]

Hi Wayne,

Thanks a lot for the suggestions, especially to mention the references
to discussions and other projects - I've completly forgotten to
include references ;)

> You will want to pick which way you're going to go with implementing
> this (the X11 pipeline extension seems the easiest way, but I don't
> know the technical details) before the final draft.
Well, it also depends wether the code of the new Direct3D/OpenGL
pipelines will be opened early enough. There are some contraints about
which code may be used.

The disadvantage I see with extending the existing pipelines is code
duplication and not so maintenance friendly code, on the other side
already a lot of stuff already works so its some kind of tradeof. I'll
play a bit with it and see what can be done how ;)

> It might be worthwhile listing which drivers have good XRender support
> - do opensource drivers for various cards/chipsets have better XRender
> support than OpenGL support?
> If so, it would be something that gives more support to this idea for
> mainstream users, and a fully opensource desktop, not just remote X
> users.
Absolutly, thats the main reason why I think XRender as Java2D backend
makes sence (thanks, seems I've not mentioned this enough).
Some of the open-source drivers bundled with Xorg already accalerate
XRender (Intel, ATI/AMD), and because EXA will be the default
accaleration architecture soon, in the mid-term almost all drivers
will have good XRender accaleration.
I'll put some explanations and links to the proposal to make this more clear.

Thanks a lot for your suggestions, lg Clemens