Colour Corruption

[David Chisnall]

Hi,

I remember a while Andreas reported an issue when remote displaying a  
GNUstep app on a platform of with different endians (or whatever the  
grammatically correct variant of that phrase is).  My MBP is  
currently broken, so I'm back on my PowerBook and experiencing the  
same issue.  Using X forwarding from my (PowerPC, big-endian)  
PowerBook to my ThinkPad (x86, little-endian) I get strange colours.   
It seems something in the Cairo back end (I don't have any of the  
others installed anymore, so I can't test if this is a local issue)  
is not setting the byte order correctly.

On the plus side, apart from the blue tint, remote GNUstep  
performance seems to have improved dramatically.  Last time I tried  
it, it was almost unusable on a local network with GigE.  Now I'm  
using it between two machines on an 802.11g network and it's quite  
usable (enough lag that you can tell that it's not local, but not  
enough to actually be irritating).  Many, many thanks to whoever  
fixed the latency issues.  It is still redrawing a lot more than it  
needs to, but this X Server doesn't implement XDamage, so it might be  
a server issue.

David