[Qt-interest] Plans to improve the X11 backend?

[Graeme Gill]

Colin S. Miller wrote:

> Some mobile phones use X11/Embeded, where the application can (and normally does),
> write directly to /dev/xfb/0, which is the memory-mapped buffer that represents
> the screen.
> 
> Thus you'd normally implement any optimisations in the application, not in X.

In general this doesn't work, because X11 is a network protocol, so there is
no local frame buffer to write to. Any decent X11 based application should
be performance tested to remote displays, as well as local ones.

Graeme Gill.