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Next-Gen X Window Rendering For Linux
Bytal writes "Seth Nickel, a GNOME hacker, has an extensive treatment of the next generation Linux graphics technologies being worked on by Red Hat and others. For all those complaining about the current X-Windows/X.org server capabilities, things like 'Indiana Jones buttons that puff out smoothly animated clouds of smoke when you click on them,' 'Workspace switching effects so lavish they make Keynote jealous' and even the mundane 'Hardware accelerated PDF viewers' may be interesting."
And only a few days ago we were asked, "Where have all the cycles gone?" Sheesh.
oh. sorry. parsing error.
I read that as "Next Gen-X Window Rendering for Linux"
"Win treats sysadmins better than users. Mac treats users better than sysadmins. Linux treats everyone like sysadmins."
I am sure the new Linux desktop will make OSX look like Windows. And then the entire creative department will rush out and buy Linux based laptops just to look trendy.
This is not the sig you are looking for...
Windows that shrink scale and move all over the fucking place with cool animations
Yes, sounds... nice. And easy to work with.
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Hey, this will get you "Windows that shrink scale and move all over the fucking place with cool animations". What more could you want?
My other account has a 3-digit UID.
Fuck yeah mutha fucka... watch those cool animations fucking fly... wooohoooo
"We need a fourth law of Robotics: Stop Fingering My Wife"
I also like the well-placed use of the word "fucking" in the descriptions.
"Flyin' in just a sweet place,
Never been known to fail..."
True... but even System 6.0 was a paragon of usability compared to the state of Gnome and KDE today. Even the constant crashes gave you a dialog whose buttons were action verbs (not to mention a cute little bomb icon). Hard to hate something like that.
Enlightenment E17 IS the next generation X desktop! It has the fastest gfx libraries on this planet and it's veeery smooth! It's already released as developer version (DR17), but should be released for masses soon.
Hard to hate something like that?
You have go to be kidding. It even got worse when System 8 would chastise you for "not shutting down properly" when you were forced to hard reset the locked up bastard. Gah! Nothing like that smiling little MacOS face telling me I've been a bad boy and to be more careful next time. YOu! YOU! Be more careful! You don't overwrite other programs memory space and trash my work!
Oh yeah and the crash dialog boxes may as well have been labeled "Fuck me" for all the good they did. Force quit? Yeah that worked well. Should have been labelled "Finish Crashing".
Sometimes my arms bend back.
Go, X.org! Lead us to The Gibson and beyond! Give us our translucent Pac-Man viruses and melting death heads! Oh, and Angelina Jolie while you're at it, OK?
Dewey, what part of this looks like authorities should be involved?
Hardware-accelerated PDF viewers, huh? Aqua beat already does that.
Well and before Aqua beat there were "hardware-accelerated postscript viewers" - but they were normally just called "printers".
You know you want one!
I know a few people aren't keen on eye candy
I gave up eye candy when I found it was causing a cavity between my ears.
I can't tell you how many potential Linux/UNIX users I know that have told me they're waiting for something like buttons that disappear in a puff of smoke and, until Linux has that, they'll stick with Windows.
Darn it! I forgot the "sarcasm" tags.
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