Re: [Crust-discuss] Goals?

[Wolfgang]

Hi Johan!

Johan Rydberg <address@hidden> wrote:
> > What are the technical goals of the Crust project?
[snip] 
>
> I will try to decrease this the number of levels to atleast three and a half.
> 
>    1. Device drivers -- Handles graphic acceleration and framebuffer
>    2.0. Surface server -- Handles onscreen surfaces
>    2.1. Surface client library -- Provides drawing primitives, working on 
> surfaces.
>    3. Client library (for example GNUstep).

Will there be a X-compatiblity layer which makes it possible to use
old X applications? Especialy over the network? This would help Crust
being accepted. Will all high-level client libraries use a common
look&feel? How will applications contact the server? Will the server
be a translator?

Cheers,
GNU/Wolfgang

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