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X.org Making Fast Progress

Posted by michael on from the xcellent dept.

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."

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  1. Another Step by spacecadetglow · · Score: 0, Troll

    This is just another step to linux becoming as bloated as windows.

  2. Yay! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    To bad X is the slowest graphical sub-system ever. What is needed is hardware accelerated graphics where the window managers have direct access to video memory and not through some slow and useless network layer.

    Come back when X is faster than windows GDI.

  3. Re:Good, but... by Loonacy · · Score: 0, Troll

    That's kind of funny because whenever I have to boot into Windows it grates at me how awful the fonts look in comparison to my Linux installation. I even had my sister tell me my Mozilla looked "prettier" than hers while I was in Linux.

  4. Re:Meanwhile... by Durandal64 · · Score: 0, Troll

    I think you're on drugs. Look at those screenshots of the X shadows and then look at screenshots of OS X. (Hint: Shadows on windows don't serve much purpose if they are all of the same depth.) I swear, no matter how many cool new features the Linux folks add to their WMs, they can still make them look ugly as sin.