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Not Just Eye Candy At Freedesktop.org

Posted by timothy on from the x-rocks dept.

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."

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  1. fp by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    first post

    1. Re:fp by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      YOU

      FAIL

      IT

  2. last post? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    can I be the last post?

  3. Flirt Prost! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    fp

  4. A (offtopic) question by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    This site is unavailable allready..

    Shouldn't Slashdot have some sort of caching system ?
    So that stories like this have link to a local(slashdot.org) mirror of the page.

    That would at least make me happy .. :)

  5. Re:Official Jessica Lynch Anal Fiction Thread by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ...the original thread was modded down as a troll, never to be seen again.

    THE END

  6. freedesktop.org down? by TerminalInsanity · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Slashdot: The worlds only legal DDoS network.

  7. Bravo... by ErnstKompressor · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    \Loud Round Of Applause\...

    What an amazing variety of people skulk about these parts. Me thinks a number of "/.-ers" could use a good ass-raping...The humor in it escapes me...

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    We apologise for the fault in this post. Those responsible have been sacked. -- Signed RICHARD M. NIXON
    1. Re:Bravo... by Red+Rocket · · Score: -1, Offtopic


      Me thinks a number of "/.-ers" could use a good ass-raping...The humor in it escapes me...

      Especially since the anal rape story is another lie perpetrated by the Pentagon. Her Walter Reed doctors are using her for propaganda again and she doesn't even know it.
      Here's the scoop from the NZ Herald and from Wired.

      --
      - Hail to our fearless misleader! Fool speed ahead!
    2. Re:Bravo... by Overly+Critical+Guy · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Wow, what a surprise! The Iraqi doctors are claiming she wasn't raped!

      And there aren't mass gravesites buried in the desert, either.

      --
      "Sufferin' succotash."
    3. Re:Bravo... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      And you're not a tired, old, shrill, demented tool of MS and the Bush administration.

      The Jessica Lynch story is nothing more than war propaganda and a lie. When are you going to figure that out? I forgot, you're too stupid to look at the facts. Rah rah, fanboy!

      Insightful? No, you're definitely Overrated.

      Next.

    4. Re:Bravo... by Red+Rocket · · Score: -1, Offtopic


      Wow, what a surprise! The Iraqi doctors are claiming she wasn't raped!

      Wow, what another surprise. Another Bush loyalist jumps in to defend the liars who have usurped democracy. Aren't you guys the ones who wanted to "liberate" the Iraqi people? Maybe you wanted to "liberate" all of them except these doctors. You just want them to shut up, right?

      And there aren't mass gravesites buried in the desert, either.

      Those mass graves were created while dubya's daddy sat on his hands and watched. King George the 1st encouraged the Shiites in southern Iraq to rise up and overthrow Saddam but intentionally left Saddam's Republican Guard intact after the first Gulf War to reduce the chance of an Islamic faction gaining power. When Saddam sent in the attack helicopters, Bush senior could have easily taken them out with the world's blessings but he chose to let Saddam slaughter the Shiites. The same thing happened under Reagan with us selling weapons to Saddam and trying to keep him in a stalemate with Iran. Some of those weapons were used to slaughter Kurds.

      Keep on believing your comfortable fiction. That's what democracy is all about, your comfort, right?

      --
      - Hail to our fearless misleader! Fool speed ahead!
    5. Re:Bravo... by Sj0 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      And George W. Bush is a great human being who got to where he is today through hard work, dedication, and an endearing air of confidence.

      BWAHAHAHAHA! When you realize that everyone is lying to you about everything happening in the world today, maybe you'll drop the attitude. Americans are just as propogandized as the Iraqis, it's just you're too ignorant to realize it. Admittedly, it's not your fault you're ignorant, since no reputable news organization exists in the US, despite rumors to the contrary.

      --
      It's been a long time.
  8. Re:So much for Xouvert... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    LOLOLOMG

    ther bandwidth amd megahurtz haev been stoeled!!!!1111oneoneone

    asdf jklsemicolon

  9. Remember the Maine! by Thud457 · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    The humor comes from the fact that this alledged soldier ass-rape is all A FIGMENT OF DONALD RUMSFELD'S DISEASED IMAGINATION! (And he got called on it!)

    beeeeotch!

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    the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

    1. Re:Remember the Maine! by Thud457 · · Score: 0, Offtopic
      You have to seriously question the moral perspeacity of someone that would tell a woman with memory problems that she had been raped when in reality she hadn't.

      Seems to me, that would be as emotoinally damaging as actually being rape. The only difference being the identity of the person violating them.

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      the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

  10. Timecop you dork! - stop it! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ooo

  11. I guess I don't find Ass-Rape to be a funny topic by ErnstKompressor · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I'm not debating the veracity of the actual circumstances of Lynch's situation...I was simply commending the individual who put an end to the beginning of a tasteless thread. I agree the Bush regime is out of control, but that is irrelevant to the lack of humor regarding rape.

    Sorry for the confusion...

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    We apologise for the fault in this post. Those responsible have been sacked. -- Signed RICHARD M. NIXON
  12. Free Tickets to SCALE by MrMorph · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Come join us at the Southern California Linux Expo on November 22nd at the Los Angeles Convention Center in Los Angeles, California. Exhibitors include Real Networks, Novell, and Pogo Linux. Some of the speakers include Seth Nickell, Chris Dibona, Patrick Mochel and John Terpstra. Full and student tickets are still available for this event as well as free exhibition only passes using the FREE promotional code.