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More Insight On Longhorn's Avalon And Aero Design

Posted by timothy on from the all-on-paper dept.

Lispy writes "While monitoring the Xorg mailinglist I came across this set of WinHEC PPT-presentations (work fine in OOorg) that cover some interesting details on the underlying architecture of Aero, Aero Glass and future font rendering in Microsoft's upcoming Longhorn OS. What does the Slashdot crowd think about the overall design and its downsides, such as power consumption on notebooks?" (KPresenter works fine, too, btw.)

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  1. Re:Interesting by Distinguished+Hero · · Score: 5, Informative

    And oh, completely offtopic -- what's the deal with saying, work fine in OOorg -- shouldn't that be works fine with OO? Why the org/.org thingy?

    "The name is "OpenOffice.org" and not "OpenOffice", because someone else already had the trademark. The name should be used as an adjective: "OpenOffice.org Application", "OpenOffice.org Community" and so on..." Link

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  2. Re:Aero? Aqua? by jomas1 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Take a look at this cam of Jim Allchin's Keynote showing off Longhorn's directx capabilities.
    This makes it pretty clear why Apple is trying to patent transparent windows and some other elements of their UI.

    <http://www.neowin.net/staff/creamhackered/winhe c/ WinHEC2004-JimAllchinKeynote.zip>

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  3. Re:New font engine? by bwoodring · · Score: 5, Informative

    If you are interested in learning more about Avalon, consider reading this article and especially the comments at the end. The author discusses Avalon vs. Quartz in the comments.

    Graphical Composition in Avalon

  4. Re:Honestly... by HerbanLegend · · Score: 5, Informative

    This parent is spot-on. I run 3 WindowsXP machines and a linux PDC and fileserver in my house. I would switch to Linux for the other computers, too - but there just isn't the support for applications and hardware. I would have to spend thousands to "upgrade" to a free os that supports my hardware.

    Linux asks you to learn a tremendous amount in order to use it. Fine - but you can't expect to sell a product with such a steep learning curve to people who barely made it out of High School.

    Oh, and a reality check: millions of people in America alone are functionally illiterate. They are NOT going to rewrite their .confs.

    Microsoft, at this point, is damn near unstoppable because it plays to the crowd - the REAL crowd. The Slashdot Community is a tiny niche in a tiny minority. Let's all work together to write linux apps that are actually easier to use than their microsoft equivalents?