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Next-Gen X Window Rendering For Linux

Posted by timothy on from the future-looks-pretty dept.

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."

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  1. "Hardware accelerated PDF viewers'' ? by Neil+Blender · · Score: 5, Funny

    And only a few days ago we were asked, "Where have all the cycles gone?" Sheesh.

  2. But why do they need their own... by jpellino · · Score: 4, Funny

    oh. sorry. parsing error.

    I read that as "Next Gen-X Window Rendering for Linux"

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  3. Cool by M3rk1n_Muffl3y · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

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  4. What next... by GillBates0 · · Score: 5, Funny
    'Indiana Jones buttons that puff out smoothly animated clouds of smoke when you click on them.

    ...a paperclip that bats its eyelids and talks to you when you click on it? We could call it Xlippy.

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  5. Re:All this, and yet.... by Per+Wigren · · Score: 4, Funny

    Hey, this will get you "Windows that shrink scale and move all over the fucking place with cool animations". What more could you want?

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  6. Re:Finally? by Gob+Blesh+It · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

  7. Re:Finally? by snuf23 · · Score: 5, Funny

    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".

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