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X.org Making Fast Progress
prisonernumber7 writes "X.org is showing a lot of progress! The combination of the XFixes extension, Damage extension, Composite extension and XEvIE (X Event Interception Extension)
present in X11R6.8 present user interface designers with a wide range of
here-to-fore difficult to achieve possibilities. What does this mean for the enduser? That's window shadows and window shadows within windows as well as true translucency for the OSS community. Good samples of Gnome and KDE desktops with drop shadows, and so on can be found here, here,
here,
here,
here,
translucency here, here and here,
and its use on handhelds running Linux."
Wow, shiny.
I had not realized anything was missing from my window manager experience. But now that I see the screenshots for myself, I cannot wait for the oppurtunity to turn the new eyecandy off in the next release of KDE or Gnome.
*cough* Sorry.
Really great work, guys. I'm pround to see progress. But aside from these uses, what good will it do?
And what's the implication of 'true' transparency? What kind of fake transparency have we all been using up until now?
Now we can start to look as much like OSX as possible. Very pretty. Now we just need to wait for Adobe and Macromedia to endorse Linux and it'll steal the graphic design folks from Apple.
Am I the only one who doesn't care what their desktop looks like? Shadows are all well and good, but this only take up valuable cpu time which could be used for NetHack!
This year will be the year of Linux on the deskt...... !!! *yanked off stage by big hook*
READY.
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is that a high-resolution version of hello.jpg???
its that polish matters.
;)
What does being from Poland have to do with Xorg?
Translucency is an important factor in an area near and dear to me: air traffic control. Most existing solutions in use are deeply mired in non-standard proprietaritude.
Er.
You're talking to the guy who wrote an article called "Drowning in Aqua".
I think my dislike of user interface CPU-wasters is pretty generic.
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Translucency means you can (for example) have an editor window open on top of a reference web site in Mozilla, and still read the reference information while working in the editor without having to repeatedly raise and lower the two windows.
But now you can't convince your boss to spend this year's equipment budget on a bigger monitor for you -- say goodbye to that 30" 2500x1600 LCD monitor from Apple.
When information is power, privacy is freedom.
Ladies and Geeks everywere. This is the tenth anniversary of this particular complaint and the correct answer. Let's all have a big round of applause and hope for ten more years of voicing the same complaint, and the same answer. Good Night everybody.
Could you please stop all this fuzz about polish. Call me old fashioned, but in my PC I want nothing else than good, old english.
Ah, those arrogant immigrant geeks.
Damn straight. XFree86 can screw themselves.
Of course eyecandy matters. If you are like me you spend more time looking at that world inside that box on your desk than you look at your kids, your soulmate or a piece of art. If this HAS to be all I see all day, it better pleases my eye...
Hmm. Sounds interesting, and I bet it will be done sooner or later. But I think that after eight hours of work this could make me kinda sick. You know with all those shadows constantly moving when I move the cursor.
;-)
Wouldn't it be nicer to link the lightsource to the systemclock and have it move like the sun over the desktop? So you could tell what time it is by the length and direction of the shadows. It would have to move backwards at nighttime of course or you would have a black desktop at night...
Just dim your desktop to simulate moonlight. :-)
Good for those late-night hacks
Some smart aleck will tie it to the lunar cycle, so they can use the excuse, "Nah, I can't code that tonight, it's a new moon"
You are in a twisty maze of processor lines, all alike.
There is a lot of hype here.
Well I stole the door thunkers off a Porsche and put them on my Honda Civic. Damn thing just FEELS faster with them.
No weapon in the arsenals of the world is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men.-Ronald Reagan