On Thu, 2007-05-24 at 02:38 +0100, Jon Harrop wrote:

> Here are my ideas:
> 
> 1. A new GUI library written in a functional style that renders controls as 
> vector graphics via Smoke. Everything is rendered using OpenGL but abstracted 
> behind Smoke.

> Does anyone else find this idea awe inspiring?

Just one problem: OpenGL has a non-reentrant interface.
How anyone could be allowed to get away with this utter
garbage today I don't know. But the implication is you need
to provide a GUI server with a proper design, which requires
some work. Some operations can be done in parallel and some
must be serialised and some don't make sense unless explicitly
synchronised.

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