Rasterman Responds To Seth And Havoc

An anonymous reader writes "Rasterman, of Enlightenment fame, has responded to Seth Nickell and Havoc Pennington's blog entries, which were in reference to this previous article. about Next gen X rendering. Raster says: 'Well it seems the XDevConf has produced some interesting blogs and discussion. I'm a bit sad I was not able to attend (no funding at all), as there seems to have begin a lot of discussion and moves in directions we in Enlightenment land have been going for years, and are likely far ahead in. I guess this means we haven't been able to share our experience in this. Maybe next year. Anyway the point is that this has started up some musings from Seth Nickell and Havoc Pennington related to this. This is great - finally people are beginning to take seriously what the Enlightenment crowd have been talking about for years.'" (Note: the previous post was about Nickell's post, not the other way around.)

Comments

ugh

[Anonymous Coward]

linux will never fully beat out windows as long it continues hanging on to old bloated technology like X ...real innovators would of designed something more efficient and powerful by now, but the sad truth is that microsoft is able to make more technological advancements than the linux community because it's better able to phase out technology that's past its prime.

Re:stunning

[rbanffy]

all the nice effects that mac and longhorn will be doing next year could be tied into xorg/gnome within 6 months.

It should be "All the nice effects that Mac has been doing since MacOS X was first shown back in 2000/2001 and Longhorn will be doing next year could be tied into xorg/gnome within 6 months".

Beautiful videos

[Anonymous Coward]

I saw the videos before they got slashdotted, and I have to say it looks amazing, stunning and beautiful, but completely useless. Just the stuff my sister loves.

I mean, I don't need snowflakes falling on flames with live window resizing, it would distract me, but there are a lot of people in the world who'd love that.

I can imagine a company porting Firefox to Enlightenment to use all this and producing a set top box that a family can use and would be proud to show visitors (you've seen people do that, right). Make the box look cool (max mini) and then blow everything else out of the water on the screen.

Me, I'll stick with 20th century rendering tech, taking only the usability improvements, but I can still see this taking off.

Re:So where is the response?

[Taladar]

AFAIK Ion doesn't support totally useless eyecandy crap, no.