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From: markham@cadence.cadence.com (Jeff Markham)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: R5 wish list
Message-ID: <1990Sep10.174657.11241@cadence.com>
Date: 10 Sep 90 17:46:57 GMT
Sender: markham@cadence.com (Jeff Markham)
Organization: Cadence Design Systems, Inc.
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I've been meaning to answer this request for a while ..
and I hope its not too late :

What I think would be good in R5 

1). Paul Jensen (of Digital Equipment) has drafted a
    protocol extension proposal which he has called
    the WormHole extension.  Apart from the cool name,
    it sets forth a series of protocol extensions that
    are designed to take advantage of new "smart" framebuffers
    being offered by DEC and Sun (not jointly of course).
    The part that appeals to me the most is the ability to
    send multiple (simple) polygons in one protocol request.
    I don't know if anyone else is having performance problems
    with XFillPolygon .. but we sure are.  Another neat thing
    it provides for is to send the foreground color along with
    the shape.  I appeal to each of you to support this
    protocol extension and help it get into R5 .. 'cause its
    a good one.

2). Another good thing to look at would be adding some policies
    to the ICCCM about how selections and selection formats
    get handled.  Specifically, it would be great if there were
    a bank of format converters registered that an application
    could call in order so that it could accept a selection. An
    example would be .. some application posts a selection in format
    "X Window Dump" .. and another application can only accept
    PostScript(tm) ... If that application could request a conversion
    service to invoke the appropriate converter .. then life would
    be alot easier for application writers.   I think all the sub
    systems are in place to support something like this .. certainly
    the ICCCM is specific about posting selections with a format
    atom.


That's my two cents worth,
Thanks,
 
Jeff Markham
markham@cadence.com