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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. fp by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    fpfpfp

    1. Re:fp by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      FINALLY, after all these years I FINALLY got a first post.

      I can't tell you how good it feels.

      First, I'd like to thank Slashdot for making this all possible. And all of you fellow Slashdot first posters for making it such a wothy challenge...

  2. YOU FAIL IT!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    FP only counts if you are logged into an account (it doesn't necessarily have to be your own). FP is worth nothing if you don't sacrifice some karma for it. Thus FPs by ACs do not count.

    YOU FAIL IT!!

  3. I don't have any problems unless... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I guess I don't have any problems with criminals being tracked, it would probably be a better alternative for high flight risk accused, than the imprisonment they are forced on at the moment. (So what if they aren't actually convicted of a crime yet...) I think the real question is , What happens when all of us are criminals?

  4. Re:In case of slashdotting... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    "Windows that shrink scale and move all over the fucking place with cool animations".

    Nothing against swearing as such (do it quite a bit myself in spoken conversation), but doesn't this sound like an twelve-year-old child trying to be "big" ?

  5. Re:Screenshots, get yer screenshots by swv3752 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Are you illiterate? It talks about developing a new X server using openGL.

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  6. Re:Screenshots, get yer screenshots by Leo+McGarry · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Still waiting to hear what, if anything, that has to do with my post.

  7. Re:The opposite of what I want by Blakey+Rat · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    True about modding, there are many worse abuses. My big gripe is these posts that basically say "I don't care about this story" being modded up. If you don't care about the story, don't post. If you're moderating, and you see a post that amounts to not caring, moderate it as off-topic.

    In any case, you don't want a lightweight simple GUI that hits Linux's target market because you already have exactly what you want... right? You said so. ;) Or maybe we should moderate you -1 Liar.

    The point is, you don't have exactly what you want, nobody does. That's why people are out there writing software right now.

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