Tor Andersson <tor.andersson@xxxxxxxxxxx>: > In fact, it might be worthwhile to approach the plan9 developers > about incorporating any changes into plan9 as well. this could be discussed at comp.os.plan9 newsgroup; it is fed into the mailing list and most developers are on it. > The current libg doesn't use porter duff alpha compositing, which would > need to be added in order to support anti-aliasing (faked or not). well, tom duff (of porter-duff) did most of the graphics work on plan9; you may want to find out from him whether he made or wanted to make the kind of changes you suggest, and what kind of an api he had in mind for that. going to plan9 people with something tom duff already thought about/worked on is likely to go farther. he is td@xxxxxxxxx, in case you are not sure where to find him. oz