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Not Just Eye Candy At Freedesktop.org
Jim Gettys writes "While Keith Packard's eyecandy at freedesktop.org, including drop shadows, translucent menus and windows with alpha channels is nice to look at, and in some ways useful, *much* more important
is that the same facilities are useful for
thumbnailing, screen magnifiers, and arbitrary transforms of applications on their way to the screen, just to name a few of the potential
applications. So enjoy the eyecandy, but remember, too much candy can rot your brain. And if you want to
avoid fattening your brain, you can come help us
make this ready for prime-time, and work off
the candy you ate and pitch in at freedesktop.org."
For background, see this earlier Slashdot post about Freedesktop.org, and the brief description below.
An anonymous reader sums up this effort to revamp X: "The new X server features full support for transparency, and has window-level image compositing among other things. It allows applications to present alpha-blended content to the screen. A new X Visual was added to the server. At 32 bits deep, it provides 8 bits of red, green and blue along with 8 bits of alpha value. Applications can create windows using this visual and the compositing manager can take those contents and composite them right onto the screen. The X server project holds sources to build an X server separately from a full X distribution."
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
Slashdot made the website translucent.
So Microsoft can copy Apple, but X can't? That's not far at all.
Fred
"A fool and his freedom are soon parted"
-RMS
Looking at screenshot number 3, I think the fellow's got a few bugs to work out.
Bu-dum-chee!
Thank you! Thank you! I'll be here all week! Try the buffet!
If translucent windows can "fatten your brain" (er..?) then is ratpoison the Atkins Diet? Someone else help me out with abusing this metaphor some more.
So enjoy the eyecandy, but remember, too much candy can rot your brain.
oh that reminds me of something.... oh yeah! THIS
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
oh man, this is probably the greatest usenet post I've ever seen.
long live ratpoison!
For your viewing pleasure, I have obtained an ASCII-art mirror of the screen shots:
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THIS is eyecandy!
Anyone know who this is?
There's such a thing as being too vain, you know :-)
Simon.
Physicists get Hadrons!
Can anyone comment on this?
I can, but not intelligently.
FLOSS will see a whole new world...
OK, who else when they read this got a visual image of RMS in a thong?
Excuse me, I have to go beat my head against a wall until that image is gone.
Guido in a thong. brrrr!
Check your spelling for crying out loud! I nearly benastied myself!