GDI architecture

[Marcus Meissner]

On Tue, Aug 06, 2002 at 04:00:47PM +0200, Jacek Bator wrote:
> Hello
> 
> I'm tring to understand current wine gdi architecture, and as far as I 
> see its strictly based on and mixed with XWindows. Is it inheritance of 
> early development. Does any one tried ever to rewrite this layer not 
> only to separate dll, but to implement real drivers for graphics
> rendering.
> I mean not only  connected with core gdi in source but during runtime. 
> With that kind of implementation there would be much easier to implement 
> new backends for graphics ... not only X11 but also on other graphics 
> systems (framebuffers, other systems like beos,atheos). I know that this 
> is big stuff but it gives lots of advantages. Such system sould 
> implement all rendering (text, lines, etc.) in software (aka GDI engine 
> or HEL on Windows) which largely done in wine already, and if driver 
> makes avaluable any methods with other capabilites than raw framebuffer 
> use them.
> When I've look on aplications with well designed plugins systems,
> I see that this effort was worth of costs for implementiation.

We already did most of that that, you should look closer.

Ciao, Marcus