Afterstep 2.0 Beta Includes XML Graphics System

vaevictus writes "Afterstep just released its 2.0 Beta 1, after a long merge from its development branch. One of the most interesting new features is an XML-based graphics system, where any picture for any part of the WM can be a simple chunk of XML, which can do transformations, scaling, gradients and some other nice graphics mods. I've personally used this to cut my 1600x1200 image size from a 2.4mb PNG to a total of about 37kb. This leads to some very compact themes. If you're not familiar, AfterStep is one of the older WMs out there still in active development; all of you WindowMaker fans should check out the WM your WM branched off of, so long ago."

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Re:mirror, maybe muahhaa

[donutz]

http://digitalsushi.com/as2/www.afterstep.org/


Don't be a karma whore. Go ahead and remove the mirror, and get modded down -1 Dumb. Bwahahaha!

Re:Not being familiar with this...

[vaevictus]

Is it very sensitive to errors, like most XML applications? If one XML file/tag gets corrupted, is the whole windowing system fucked until someone goes in on the command-line to fix it?

It typically just fucks up that image... and so far it's been pretty lenient to me.

Does the typical "XML bloat" become an issue? And, is there much gained by using XML over some/any other scheme?

XML bloat as in too many tags or not streamlined data? I've not noticed this. XML was the chosen scheme mostly because of it's strict heirarchy. There may be better schemes.