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From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
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To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 12/11/2009 10:54 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>>
>> The point is, there isn't a "draw a rectangle" primitive in X.  There
>> also isn't a "draw some text using this font" in X.[1]
>
> Not necessarily, the X server can support the render extension which 
> allows compositing operations on an X pixmap.  Firefox uses that 
> extensively, for example to render tiled backgrounds (though probably 
> GTK user interface elements can do so less successfully).

Yes, but this is just a single application.  The point is that these 
things are not as widely standardized on X as they are on Windows.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> Paolo
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