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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."
I'd like a pony, too.
"Tell me doctor, with all of your defenses, are there any provisions for an attack by killer bees?"
shut up you cock-smoking teabagger.
..on rewriting the entire GUI framework in Linux, ie get rid of X, Qt, GTK, Gnome, KDE, and any other flotsam and just start again.
not just get a mac already? Hardware accelerated PDF, puffs of smoke.... If these guys want OS X so much, just buy it.
Wow, you're an asshole. I wonder if you have the balls to have the same attitude with you're boss when he/she's wrong. Yeah, I thought not. Grow up.
Not only is Linux about a decade behind OS X technologically speaking, but the Open Source process itself has significant disadvantages too. There is the ongoing multitude of problems behind intellectual property issues (how do you ensure Linux developers haven't stolen code from other companies and put it into Linux?), as well as security issues (open source code is inherantly less secure than closed source code), and finally the whole question about who is actually doing the coding (how do you know al quaeda hasn't inserted a back door in Linux?) Apple employs professional American programmers and this ensures that the software is professionally written, maintained and secured by Apple itself, not mahood abbad or his buddies in Tehran.
Once again, good points :)
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But then I ask the question, why not?
Windows is able to map your Alt key to a "real" key instead of a modifier because it uses key scan codes and traps keyboard events in a very low-level way (port 0x60 IIRC, x86-specific).
Traditionally, *NIX systems like Linux, which can run on very different hardware, use a software layer to communicate with devices and cannot use those tricks. As of now, of course. This may change in the future. But it would probably require installing and configuring a keyboard driver.
Just imagine, right now you still have to choose a keymap if not using a US keyboard. Do you really want to have to choose a keyboard type as well, like "SUN Workstation XXX", "MS Natural keyboard v2" or "ACER laptop keyboard series 1350" ? There are *many* keyboard types out there
For ex. another windows thing I'm used to is windows key. I tried setting up the same thing in gnome but it won't let you use the windows key as a modifier.
You can configure your X server (nontrivial, I know) to map the Windows key to e.g. the "Super" modifier. You can then tell Gnome about this in its configuration panel (just tried on my wife's machine and the key sequence appears as <Mod4>E for <Windows>E. And it works fine
Regarding launching something and leave it. Hmm I do some system intensive things like vid capture/encoding and gasp! some gaming in linux like enemy territory and doom3. So I'm not going to leave a bunch of apps when these apps need all the resources you can give them.
No, of course not. As for video capture, just lay the window out the way that suits you best and leave it here. When you're not using the capture/encoding feature, the application should consume almost no resources (if not, this may be a bug in the application itself) so you can leave it open.
As of games like ET and D3, you usually run these fullscreen. So just close them and it won't change a thing, right ?
That said, don't think I'm trying to explain to you how to make without the features you need. On the contrary, I do think it is only a matter of using the computer in a different way... actually thinking about the computer in a different way, when switching from a Windows system to a *NIX one.
And your point about the Alt key is valid, it's just technical limitations there
Cheers
ko
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