Editing Xgl (section)

== Rationale ==
Structuring all rendering on top of OpenGL could potentially simplify video driver development. It removes the artificial separation of [[2D computer graphics|2D]] and [[3D computer graphics|3D]] [[hardware acceleration|acceleration]].  This is advantageous as 2D operations are frequently unaccelerated (which is counterintuitive, since 2D is a subset of 3D). {{citation needed|date=April 2010}}

It also removes all driver-dependent code from the X server itself, and allows for accelerated [[Compositing|Composite]] and [[XRender|Render]] operations independent of the graphics driver.