[Etoys] Next Steps for B-Test2 and more

Bert Freudenberg bert at freudenbergs.de
Tue Oct 31 17:06:58 EST 2006


Am 31.10.2006 um 14:39 schrieb Jecel Assumpcao Jr:

> Yoshiki Ohshima wrote on Mon, 30 Oct 2006 10:08:45 -0800
>>   Now seems to be a good time (even though the B-Test1 schedule seems
>> to be pushing back) to think about the next major items to be
>> addressed for B-Test2 (and later) milestones.
>
> It seems to me that the two largest issues to be addressed before the
> final release (middle of next year?) are IPv6 support and dealing with
> Arabic and Thai scripts. Neither is very easy.

Also, some performance improvements would not hurt. For example, it  
would be good to support the 5-6-5 bitmap format used by the X server  
directly. That would mean we need to distinguish between 15 bpp and  
16 bpp - until now, 16 bpp meant 5-5-5.

- Bert -



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