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2001 FREENIX Track Technical Program - Abstract
Design and Implementation of the X Rendering Extension
Keith Packard, XFree86 Core Team, SuSE Inc.
Abstract
The 2000 Usenix Technical Conference included a presentation outlining the
state of the X rendering environment and the capabilities necessary to
bring X into the modern world. During the past year, a new extension has
been designed and implemented as part of the standard XFree86 distribution.
The X Rendering Extension addresses many of the shortcomings inherent in the
core X rendering architecture without adding significantly to the protocol
interpretation or implementation burden within the server. By borrowing
fundamental image compositing notions from the Plan 9 window system and
providing sophisticated and extensible font rendering, XFree86 is now much
more able to support existing applications while encouraging new
developments in user interfaces. More work remains to be done in areas
where best practice is less well established, including precise polygon
rasterization and image transformations.
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