[desktop-discuss] Comments on SXDE 01/08 from a newish user

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Sun, 20 Apr 2008, Darran Kartaschew wrote:

> 1. Well since SDL is focused on games, I'll submit an RFE for it. (I 
> do understand Solaris isn't for gaming, but it is nice to have a few 
> rounds of Quake every now and then. And also with Indiana, I assume 
> Sun is trying to capture the Linux crowd, which unfortunately 
> includes some gamers).

The incentive for SDL is games but it is a quite valuable portable 
interface for getting image data to a display in a real-time fashion. 
This encompasses far more than games.  Since OpenGL is also portable, 
it is useful if it is available from SDL if licensing permits it.

Bob
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