X access was Re: Debian upgrade

[Samuel Thibault]

Gaijin, le Wed 20 Jan 2010 11:11:07 -0800, a écrit :
> On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 06:10:22AM -0600, Chris Brannon wrote:
> > The X-window system only offers low-level abstractions.  It concerns
> > itself with the rendering of bitmapped images on graphical devices.
> 
> 	So, you're saying that the information X.org is receiving from, 
> say, X-Chat is all graphical information?

That's it.  As I said in another post, that wasn't the plan originally,
but it ended up being much more flexible to do it that way.

> Whoever came up with that idea for how to do things must be a         
> brain-dead moron, because working with themes must be beyond          
> hope where beauty is concerned.  I used to love working with          
> semi-transparent backgrounds,
etc.

Err, that's precisely because you want all kinds of effects and such
that keeping the text in the protocol was being more and more a problem.
You don't have the freedom to do whatever you want to your text
rendering when you're bound to a protocol.

Samuel