X access was Re: Debian upgrade

[Samuel Thibault]

Chris Brannon, le Tue 19 Jan 2010 06:10:22 -0600, a écrit :
> The X-window system only offers low-level abstractions.  It concerns
> itself with the rendering of bitmapped images on graphical devices.

Yes.

> Desktop environments like Gnome give us a higher level of abstraction, and
> Orca doesn't have to deal with those raw X events.

Yes.

Note: yes, there _is_ a text rendering interface in X11 too, but no
recent toolkit use it because it is a pain to integrate and lacks a lot
of features. So basically X11 is just pixmaps nowadays.

Samuel