On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 10:41:21AM -0700, Alan Coopersmith wrote: >Peter \"Firefly\" Lund wrote: >> The request for a screen shot operation that leaves the mouse pointer in >> the image has come up several times on the XFree86 mailing lists (please >> google for it). AFAIR the discussions can be summed up as: no, you can't >> currently do it with a vanilla XFree86, yes, some X servers have an >> extension to do, yes XFree86 could also conceivably get such an extension, >> no, nobody has written one yet, yes, there are in principle other >> solutions but they are hacks too -- and anyway, you have the source code, >> you can do whatever you like. > >Actually someone has written one and it's in the XFree86 CVS tree, if you >look in the "attic" directories and CVS history files for the remains of >Keith Packard's rejected X-Fixes extension.
I've had a couple of people from Sun ask me privately about how some (or all) of that functionality can make it into the next XFree86 release. The standard answer is that the first step is for those advocating it to write up a proposal submit it to public review. Getting this type of stuff in through the back door via a tame committer is not the right way to do it. For all the interest Sun has shown in this, I haven't seen any such proposal yet. I was surprised that Sun didn't do it through X.Org, since that's surely the appropriate way for a major X.Org member to handle extensions that are intended to have status close to that of the core protocol. Maybe the review process there was the sticking point? Or maybe now you're waiting for X Consortium / X.Org v3.0 (or whatever it's being dubbed) to come into existence? The whole thing doesn't make much sense to me... David -- David Dawes Founder/committer/developer The XFree86 Project www.XFree86.org/~dawes _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
