From: Keith W. <ke...@tu...> - 2004-05-17 19:53:16
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As I've said, I don't have a deep grasp of the requirements of a putative future mode-setting API, but in the course of other reading I came across MLdc, which is a part of the OpenML environment. This is a library API which seems to give comprehensive control of mode-setting to an application, but also seems to provide a reasonably easy way to set simple modes. It also has an extension mechanism. It's currently dependent on X to a tiny degree, so there would be some work in adapting it to become "stand-alone", and it probably has no conception of things like virtual terminals, etc. Anyway, the OpenML spec is here: http://www.khronos.org/openml/spec.html MLdc is a component of the larger environment. Keith |