Re: [Indic-computing-devel] X Test Suite failures in NCST IndiX

[Arun S. <ar...@sh...>]

On Mon, Sep 02, 2002 at 03:20:33AM -0700, Joseph Koshy wrote:
> 
> [note: the vendor string for IndiX still records the server vendor as
>  "The XFree86 Project, Inc." (as reported by `xdpyinfo') ]
> 
> -- IndiX bugs --
> XDrawString                  39P,1F                     40P,0F
> XDrawString16                40P,0F                     40P,0F
> XDrawText                    42P,2F                     44P,0F
> XDrawText16                  29P,14F                    43P,0F
> XQueryTextExtents16          1P,2F                      3P,0F
> XQueryTextExtents            1P,2F                      3P,0F
> XSetFontPath                 2P,1F                      3P,0F

As I suggested earlier, these issues would go away, if we created
Xutf8DrawString and brand new X protocol requests and then have a separate
Xlib, that aliases Xutf8DrawString to XDrawString.

Now, all the tests would pass, because we leave the normal code path
unchanged. People wanting to use Indic stuff would just do:

LD_PRELOAD=/usr/X11R6/indic/lib/libX11.so ./mozilla

This solution wouldn't require any changes to existing applications. 

If everyone is happy with this solution, we could start working on it,
as soon as Keyur has the code up in sourceforge.

I think indiX is great technology - but it needs to reach common
people. For that, we need to get the code into leading Linux/BSD 
distributions.

	-Arun