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- General (roughly sorted by priority)
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- Modularize pixel formats (eventually with dynamic extension support).
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- Implement CoreFont sharing between applications
- to save glyph rendering and surface allocations.
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- Finish VT switching (already working well after 0.9.18 release)
- - Save/redirect video only buffers.
- - Handle auto video buffers being permanently locked in video memory.
- - Support switching during exclusive access to a layer.
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- Finish implementation of cooperative levels.
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- Finish display layer core and driver API.
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- Finish multi application core.
- - Some messages may need to be dispatched synchronized.
- - Add fork handling.
- - Run time single/multi app core selection (both enabled during build).
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- Finish surface manager.
- - Add kicking out a few smaller surfaces for a bigger one.
- - Defragment free space.
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- Finish module unloading (done for most cases).
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- Convert all D_DEBUG usage to D_DEBUG_AT using some D_DEBUG_DOMAINs.
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- Move config system to libdirect with more features.
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- Write well documented driver skeletons.
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- Add core cursor component with animated shape support and better integrated
- changes caused by entering different windows.
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- Add cooperative levels to input devices, implement sharing/distinction for
- applications (e.g. PS/2 Keyboard + PS/2 Mouse driver XDirectFB on Monitor out,
- USB-Keyboard + USB-Mouse drive XDirectFB and/or other applications on TV Out,
- USB-Wacom Tablet with mouse and pen can be assigned or switched to either,
- preferrably during runtime)
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- Virtual window/layer resolution with scrolling/panning.
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- Rework cursor and palette handling in the window stack.
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- Implementation rating.
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- Drivers
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- - CLUT support in Matrox driver (tried that without success)
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- Refactoring/cleanups
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- - Split up IDirectFB::CreateSurface code
- - Cleanup flipping/back_to_front_copy stuff
- - Surface locking (internal, rw lock?)
- - Reduce sched_yield() usage
- - Rewrite VT code
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