Re: [xougen] Regarding server side widgets

[Alan Cox]

On Mer, 2003-08-27 at 23:14, >> G-LiTe / wrote:
> If we send a pixmap to the server once and keep it in memory (possibly even
> video memory), we can simply call the xserver to draw that pixmap somewhere.
> Saves a bunch of bandwidth for pixmaps that have to be drawn multiple times.
> Possibly also usefull for VNC, which can do that same:
> Grab the pixmap from the X server's cache and send it to the client.
> Then just tell the client to draw that somewhere.

X already does this, including caching in video memory offscreen so it
can blit the image again. Take a look at some good X code like xmris
(great old 2D game) and you'll see it does this sort of stuff properly
and you can play it happily remotely.