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"Um. Pardon me, but how else are you supposed to render translucent objects?"

I think he means like this.

There are tons of 'X replacements' out there. Usually they are just an X without network transparency, whiich I find very poor indeed. Network transparency is the onyl thing that really rocks in X. And with all those mobile devices popping up left and right I think it will become even more important in the future.

What alternatives are there? Nothing that's really useable yet:-) For a list I compiled recently check the other GUI projects section at Fresco. Of course you might want to check out Fresco, too. It's device independent, vector based and features even more buzzwords;-) We need more developers to get this really rolling... but the architecture is capable of doing all the nifty things MacOS X does, even some more:-) Dunno wether Fresco 'meets the need of the home user', but is that really what you want? A downsized version of a real UI environment?

Regards,
Tobias

There are tons of 'X replacements' out there. Usually they are just an X without network transparency, whiich I find very poor indeed. Network transparency is the onyl thing that really rocks in X. And with all those mobile devices popping up left and right I think it will become even more important in the future.

What alternatives are there? Nothing that's really useable yet:-) For a list I compiled recently check the other GUI projects section at Fresco. Of course you might want to check out Fresco, too. It's device independent, vector based and features even more buzzwords;-) We need more developers to get this really rolling... but the architecture is capable of doing all the nifty things MacOS X does, even some more:-) Dunno wether Fresco 'meets the need of the home user', but is that really what you want? A downsized version of a real UI environment?

Regards,
Tobias

Berlin is now called Fresco (.org

Berlin is now called Fresco

See fresco.org.