Waimea Developer Returns From Beyond

An anonymous reader writes "Waimea 0.5.0 was released after about a year from the developer disappearing. It turns out he was just working on getting the OpenGL backend for Cairo completed. Waimea is the first window manager that uses Cairo for rendering."

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Slashdot redefines minimalism

[molnarcs]

So this is a submission about three screenshots showing a GNOME desktop - oops, I mean waimea. Seriously, even though 3 screenshots might be interesting, but can someone point out something waimeaish on those screenshots (aside from that 16x16 pager like thing on the right bottom corner)?

A link would have been helpful to the source of the info. (Unless the developer whispered it in the submitter's ear).

Re:Keith's X server

[Anonymous Coward]

Thanks - that was a good read.

IMO I wouldn't be so positive about Berlin/Fresco. It won't be finished near to Avalon's date, and it's no where near usable now. I've been on the mailing list for years and it's going nowhere. I'm sorry if that sounds harsh but it really isn't.

See this recent message from Graydon (a dev) about some of the architectural problems in Fresco/Berlin

Re:FYI -- it sucks

[xedx]

There's maybe something wrong with your compilation
Mine is smooth and fast
Actually its faster cos dragging windows around doesn't bump up the cpu load to 100%.
And Im not using any third party drivers, just the old xfree driver(nv instead of nvidia)