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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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  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
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      MSO?^#PP*A\2B \8A,*I?,IO,)C4JGU*KUBLUJM]RN]PL.B\?DLID%:*1):\3Z
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  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.