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| author | David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@googlemail.com> | 2012-08-11 15:27:56 +0200 |
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| committer | David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@googlemail.com> | 2012-08-11 15:27:56 +0200 |
| commit | ac26c0ee2faeefa0399c85c01fda8063a6c0092a (patch) | |
| tree | 084f8060494a2cd5f5df96a032658538e8cc5c49 | |
| parent | ed8c730f99effcdc42fdaaccd9aa3f44e2be9a2c (diff) | |
Update NEWS file
Add information about all changes since kmscon-2.
Signed-off-by: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@googlemail.com>
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@@ -1,5 +1,47 @@ = KMSCON Release News = +CHANGES WITH 3: (development release) + * VTE support has been improved greatly. vt220 should be supported fully + except for multi-line characters. + + * glib dependency removed. Hashtables and unicode support is now + implemented in kmscon. + + * Configfiles are now supported. /etc/kmscon.conf and ~/.kmscon.conf are + read by kmscon on startup. They can include the same options as the + command line options of kmscon. However, command-line options have + precedence. + + * Multiple video objects are now supported per seat. That is, if you + have more than one graphics card per seat, all of them will be used by + kmscon. Multiple displays were supported from the beginning. + + * Modularized input backend. The XKB backend is fully optional and can + be activated/deactivated during runtime. The Dumb backend has been + renamed to "plain". + + * The eloop library is fully documented and should be API stable from + now on. + + * The font renderer subsystem has been rewritten and replaced with a new + subsystem which can load different font-renderers during runtime. + Several backends including static 8x16 backend has been added. It is + possible to compile kmscon without freetype2/pango dependencies now. + + * 2D blitting to framebuffers has been improved greatly. More devices + are supported now and blending is available, too. The 3D devices have + been updated to support these blitting operations via OpenGL. This may + be slow on older devices, though. + + * New text renderer subsystem has been added. It can load multiple + different text-renderers during runtime. The default renderer (bblit) + uses 2D blitting operations to render text. However, the gltex + renderer is also available (optionally) which renders with OpenGL + textures. This can improve performance greatly on modern devices. + + * Gcc optimizations are now enabled by default to improve rendering + performance. + CHANGES WITH 2: (development release) * Build scripts were improved and simplified. They also allow much more control about the build process now. The source was split into several |