[forum] XFree86 5.0 TODO

[Ralf Nolden]

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On Thursday 20 March 2003 16:20, Alex Deucher wrote:
> - a more dynamic X server.  The ability to change configs, change
> dualhead layouts, tv out, etc. on the fly.  User definable hot buttons
> to change configs, outputs etc.

The s3switch program may help for S3 cards and serve for an example for cards 
that allow switching, there's also a KDE frontend (ks3switch). Would be nice 
if that gets integrated with a common interface into X for all cards who 
support this.

Ralf
>
> - improved power mangement support (maybe start with Michel/Charl's
> radeon suspend patch)
>
> - integrating DMX
>
> - Release more often!  smaller releases, or releasing updates to just
> certain modules, etc.
>
>
>
> Alex
>
>
> -----------------------------------------
>
> Well,
>
> As this forum is for discussing all X stuff, here goes with a few notes
> from an XFree86 Core Team meeting from a little while back. So in the
> spirit of openness I thought I should discuss it here.
>
> This is stuff that we can think of that needs doing for XFree86 5.0,
> but
> by no means is it limited to this list or even guarantee'ing anything
> on the list will make it for 5.0.
>
> So, to spark discussions, here it is....
>
> 1. Redesign of XAA, so that multiple depth pixmaps can be stored in
> offscreen
> memory and the creation of a new directive - called the XAASurface.
> There
> will undoubtably be driver work involved to port to the new interface.
> The
> techinical lead on this is Mark Vojkovich. I believe Mark has a
> substantial
> portion of this done, if not all.
>
> 2. FBManager extensions. This still needs furthur thought to encompass
> the requirements of all bases, but, the DRI is one that needs much more
> flexible memory management of the framebuffer. Secondly, it's been
> requested before for linear allocation, rather than the current area
> allocation code for some Xv implementations.
>
> 3. Xlib locale removal. By removing all the Xlc code from libX11 and
> see
> if we can layer it on top of iconv. Need to discuss the advantages and
> disadvantages of such a task.
>
> 4. DGA - do we leave in, or do we shelve it ?
>
> 5. RandR. We now have rotation support, but not depth switching yet.
> This
> still needs to be done.
>
> 6. PseudoColor emulation. Egbert Eich has written some preliminary code
> for this, and we're hoping he'll be able to release it soon.
>
> 7. Hot Plugging of devices. Displays, Keyboards, Mice. This is
> obviously
> tricky when running multiple Xservers on the same machine. How do you
> correlate which device is plugged in, to which Xserver etc.
>
> 8. Multiseat capability. Allowing multiple Xservers to run with
> independent
> graphics cards, keyboards and mice on the same machine.
>
> 9. Xc/Xr - A postscript rendering library for the RENDER extension
> replacing
> Xlib drawing routines.
>
> 10. Window translucency.
>
> 11. XFixes extension.
>
> 12. Gamma corrected RENDER
>
> 13. Potential DIX/DDX changes.
>
> Any other topics, please bring up for discussion.
>
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