[openbeos] Interface Kit
- From: Jeremiah Rogers <jeremiah@xxxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos <openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2001 01:43:29 -0500
Hey everyone,
I'm going to be working on the interface kit, or at least that's what
I've been telling myself. The funny thing about an interface kit is that
it's generally used as an abstraction layer between the operating system
and a graphics server of some sort.
At this point, I don't see anyone working on a graphics server, correct
me if I'm wrong.
Now we could write our own graphics server from scratch, which would be
an enormous waste of time, or we could use one of the existing ones
(which just might make sense). There are three real options that I see
for our graphic system, we could use X(xfree86.org), Berlin
(http://berlin-consortium.org/), or the thing that comes with
AtheOS(atheos.cx).
My personal thought is that X is old and tired, and that some day
Berlin
will hopefully replace it. Berlin also has some _really_ cool looking
features(transparency, fully based on opengl, 3d windows) that work at a
not-bad speed. It needs to be optimized of course, but it _will_ get fast.
Also we can run berlin on top of X, so that someone working on the
interface kit could do that work while still running their normal
graphics system on their computer.
There are other options of course, but I don't think we're going to
want
to write our own graphics system, it has already been done many times
before. The great thing about Objects is that things are abstracted so
we could have the Interface Kit work with various systems (X, Berlin, etc).
Some input would be appreciated, I'm sure people have thought about
this
more than me and I'd love to hear what the think.
-Jeremiah
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Jeremiah Rogers
Email: jeremiah@xxxxxxxx, jeremiahrog@xxxxxxxxx
Web: http://jeremiah.blogspot.com
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