Re: Apple: OpenGL to speed up Quartz Engine in next MacOS-X release

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On Thursday, May 16, 2002, at 12:51 AM, Frédéric wrote:

> Hi!
>
> A few month ago, we had a discussion about GNUstep backend 
> implementation and
> about the opportunity to use or not OpenGL as the low level rendering 
> engine.
> Apple has recently anounced that the next MacOSX release (code named 
> Jaguar)
> will be using intensively OpenGL for Quartz rendering (including  2D 
> graphics
> like "Genius effect" for the Desktop). See
> http://www.apple.com/macosx/newversion/ for details.
>
> Does this changes the GNUstep team position with respect to OpenGL 
> possible
> usage in GNUstep-gui backend?

When we discussed it at FOSDEM earlier this year, I think we agreed that 
OpenGL
would probably be a good/best way to go.  Adams recent work on 
simplifying and
separating out backend components is a major step in the direction of 
making
an OpenGL based backend easier to implement.
I don't know if he (or anyone else) actually plans to work on writing 
one, but
general policy is that such contributions would be strongly welcomed.