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Afterstep 2.0 Beta Includes XML Graphics System

Posted by Hemos on from the from-the-wayback-machine dept.

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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  1. mirror, maybe muahhaa by digitalsushi · · Score: 4, Funny

    i got some nice downloads off it, but here's a mirror.

    echo "http://digitalXuXhi.com/aX2/www.afterXtep.org/"|s ed s/X/s/g

    why'm i being a tool? cause only the people who want to visit will paste. mirrors take 10x the bandwidth with a link. so, if anyone translates my url into a link that gets modded over 1, i'll just remove the mirror :D buwahahaaaa

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    1. Re:mirror, maybe muahhaa by dspeyer · · Score: 2, Funny
      Fool!

      You posted with a karma bonus, so no one has modded you up, and no one is now likely to. Grandparent said he'd pull the mirror if the post was modded above 1.

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  2. XML Image format? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    You mean something like this?

    <picture width="100" height="100">
    <pixel>
    <element x="0" y="0">
    <component name="red" value="10" />
    <component name="green" value="255" />
    <component name="blue" value="10" />
    </element> ......
    </pixel>
    </picture>

    1. Re:XML Image format? by zulux · · Score: 5, Funny

      No.... like this!

      </picture type=jpeg>
      <data encoding=32_bit_little _endian_binary_written_in_an_acsii_string_in=32_li ttle_endian>
      1010101100101001010000111010101010100010001010101 0101010001010101......
      </data>
      </picture>

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    2. Re:XML Image format? by fedor · · Score: 3, Funny

      Nah...this one is at least compatible with my very own all-purpose, bloatless, but XML-compliant DTD :

      <data>
      <![CDATA[
      begin 644 xmlgif.gz
      M'XL(".[).C\``V)L82YG:68``;`&3_E'248X-V $P`;@`\```````____+```
      M```P`;@```+^C(^IR^T/HYRTV HNSWKS[#X;B2);FB:;JRK;N"\?R3-?VC>?Z
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    3. Re:XML Image format? by kubrick · · Score: 1, Funny

      Hmmm... you were in charge of the MS Office XML support, weren't you? :) Even down to the / at the start of the opening <picture> tag...

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    4. Re:XML Image format? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      I'm looking hard. It's fantastic! So beautiful and.. well.. so small.

  3. The good news by The+Bungi · · Score: 5, Funny
    I've personally used this to cut my 1600x1200 image size from a 2.4mb png to a total of about 37kb.

    That's the good news. The bad news is the WM now eats up 300MB of memory, instead of 30.

  4. Boo advancement!!! by Admiral+Llama · · Score: 3, Funny

    Dang, Afterstep might be becoming too advanced for my tastes. Time to switch to TWM!

    On a more serious note, 8 years ago I used Afterstep. It was the easiest thing to hack through the config files and make it do what ever I wanted to with a minimum of fuss, real estate, processor time, or color space allocation (a big thing on a Sun Classic sporting only a CG3).

    Between then an now I've lived with Enlightenment, Window Maker, Gnome, KDE and OSX, yet for my work box I still use Afterstep. Maybe it's because it has a minimal number of doodads to distract me from doing actual work?

  5. Y DIY? by JB72 · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'd like to write more on the topic but I'm currently busy trying to compile my own light-bulb. I'll have a beta ready in less than two years, or sooner if I can get some more help from the open source community.

    Linux rox!

    ps - don't tell anyone I actually spend 90% my free time in Windows playing embarrassing adolescent video games.

  6. Hmmm. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny
    This looks awfuly familar to me
    <img src="http://www.afterstep.org/images/Translunacy-b ig.jpg">
    1. Re:Hmmm. by mindsuck · · Score: 2, Funny

      Windows 95 Plus! flashback! Oh god! Make the hurting stop, make the hurting stop! Now, seriously, I liked that theme but on such a high resolution that wallpaper just looks bad. Something nifty like that but rendered in glorious 3D would be neat.

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  7. Re:Lamous Front Page Editing :-( by torpor · · Score: 2, Funny

    The answer is: duh, whatever.

    <xml_graph type="svg">
    <svg_data>blah blah blah</svg_data>
    </xml_graph>

    <xml_gra ph type="png">
    <png_data>blah blah blah</png_data>
    </xml_graph>

    etc.

    PS {SORRY: should have previewed}

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  8. request to window maker users by Ender+Ryan · · Score: 2, Funny
    I have a request to make of all window maker users. Would you please stop crapflooding all the theme sites with your pathetic themes that all look exactly the same except with different backgrounds.

    Actually, this also applies to all users of .*box as well.

    Thanks.

    Seriously, WM is not nearly as configurable as AS. I don't use AS, but I'm going to check it out just for the heck of it.

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  9. Yes!!! by spazoid12 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Now, the only thing in my life not involving the esteemed XML is my electric toilet!

    I'll keep you posted...