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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:Server? What server? by BandwidthHog · · Score: 0, Troll

    I'm getting modded -1, Troll for this comment, while a guy down below is modded +4, Informative for confirming what I saw?

    And here I thought it was just a quaint old urban legend about slashdot moderators smoking crack.

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  2. Re:Silly question... by bonch · · Score: 0, Troll

    So, you can do all that using hardware acceleration through the normal Win32 API, using XAML and .NET today?

    Slashdotters will invent any sort of argument to criticize something Microsoft did.

    You're completely missing the point--ActiveX on top of an MFC app? They're removing all those layers and doing it all in hardware through .NET and Avalon presentation libraries.

  3. Don't like the size? Change it. by bonch · · Score: 0, Troll

    Again, what's the deal with Microsoft and huge buttons and icons? Are they trying to cater to the bad eyesight but too cool to wear glasses crowd?

    Avalon is vector-based and resolution-independent. So you'll be able to just change the size yourself.

    Another huge whiny issue solved.

  4. KDE by bonch · · Score: 0, Troll

    Funny, one could ask the same thing whenever KDE adds new pointless features. That icon label shading is the most amateurish horrible visual effect I've seen in a desktop operating system. They couldn't even give it a decent fadeout effect?

    Come on, you're being silly here. Longhorn has tiers of operationg going all the way back to a "Windows Classic" theme similar to Windows 2000. Microsoft is making sure they have a reliable presentation layer for a new generation of computers that will provide visual quality and not just bland text labels on top of gray like we've been getting since Windows 95. I like technology, so I like to hear about the stuff Microsoft's researchers are coming up with.

    I forgot, this is a bash-Microsoft article. Brains must be turned off as a requisite for posting...