Re: Daydreaming (was: Re: 1.3a1)
Re: Daydreaming (was: Re: 1.3a1)
- Subject: Re: Daydreaming (was: Re: 1.3a1)
- From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 12:09:13 -0800
On Nov 20, 2007, at 11:25 AM, Andrew J. Hesford wrote:
The only thing I wish Quartz would do is provide network
transparency. I think DPS used to do that in NeXTSTEP, but I never
used NeXTSTEP. It would be awesome if I could open iCal on my home
Mac from my iBook, without using VNC to give me the whole desktop!
Screen sharing in Leopard makes that pretty much a no-brainer, and you
don't have to buy Apple Remote Desktop (which is still a viable option
for Tiger users).
The whole network transparency feature of X is one of those "ideas
which sounded really good at the time" but, in practice, is now gotten
around by just about every desktop / 3D application that matters
through various direct rendering extensions which have been formulated
to deal with all the shortcomings of network transparency (inability
to do 2D compositing, inability to do 3D rendering with any speed,
performance penalties with complex font rendering, etc etc etc). This
means, of course, that a number of X11 apps don't even support network
transparency anymore.
- Jordan
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