Re: Quartz Extreme; OS X to use OpenGL for all drawing

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On Monday, May 6, 2002, at 08:49 PM, Magnus Lofgren wrote:

> from http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0205/06.wwdckeynote.php:
>
> "Quartz Extreme: Takes the compositing engine in Quartz, and 
> accelerates it in graphics cards. Combines 2D, 3D and video in one 
> hardware pipeline via OpenGL. "Everything on the screen is being drawn 
> in hardware by OpenGL." Requires AGP 2x and 32MB of video RAM. "
>
> Imagine the speed increase in this one! Especially for effects such as 
> transparency and window shadowing.
>
> Are there any plans for a similar backend for GNUstep?


Not that I know of ... but you could always write one.
The point of the GNUstep backend structure is to make it as easy as 
possible for people to contribute
different backends.