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Preview of X Windows Eye Candy

Posted by Zonk on from the pet-the-penguin dept.

glenkim writes "Remember Seth Nickell's blog entry about next generation X Window rendering? Well, in case you were wondering what it would look like, he's updated his blog with videos of luminocity, the experimental GNOME window manager, and screenshots of programatically themed widgets." From the post: "The wobbly window effect is mildly addictive. Kristian hasn't gotten much work done since he wrote it. He (and now I) spends all day moving windows around and watching them settle."

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  1. Re:Can't Play The Videos by LiquidCoooled · · Score: 1, Funny

    Given the impending slashdotting its going to get, I don't think you will be alone.

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  2. heh.. by Quixote · · Score: 4, Funny
    The wobbly window effect is mildly addictive.

    Wait till you see the "wobbly server effect"...

  3. Who did this? by althalus1969 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Linking to "X Window Eye Candy" Videos on the ./ Frontpage...that's like posting free porn.
    You people are crazy. That poor server...

  4. Losing sight of the usability target... by Junior+J.+Junior+III · · Score: 2, Funny

    "The wobbly window effect is mildly addictive. Kristian hasn't gotten much work done since he wrote it. He (and now I) spends all day moving windows around and watching them settle."

    Yeah, this is great becasue as millions of Microsoft customers have proven, less productivity from the same hardware is good.

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  5. Re:There is no such thing as X Windows. its ..SYST by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    PROOF ?:

    we don't like them there liberal "facts" round these parts pardner

    --A.Merican

  6. Calm down... by raygundan · · Score: 3, Funny

    Just pretend the "s" everybody puts at the end stands for "System." You'll feel better.

  7. i've been up for 36 hours by harlemjoe · · Score: 2, Funny

    studying for finals

    imho the windows already wobble ...

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  8. Are you from the EU??? by CaymanIslandCarpedie · · Score: 1, Funny

    Shouldn't have bought that new EU version of Windows without media player ;-)

    Sure to get trolled, but I wonder how many more posts like this you'll see once "media-less" Windows has been widely distributed?

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  9. Re:Pleasantly surprised by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Keep your eyes open for the KDE announcement. It'll go something like this:

    KDE (the leading Linux desktop) announces full support for wobbly windows in KDE 3.4.1. Says lead developer, Ralph Yarrow (Canopy inc): "KDE (the leading Linux desktop) is the first Linux desktop bring these innovative effekts to the Linux desktop."

  10. Re:somewhat offtopic.... by carpe_noctem · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yeah, no kidding. I was half expecting to see the tape cut over to paris hilton in a hotel bedroom...

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  11. MS already did that by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    it was called NT.

  12. Arrrrrrgggggggghhhhh.... by Whatchamacallit · · Score: 1, Funny

    ACID Flashback!!!

  13. Re:The MPEG4's are not MPEG4 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Yeah - I tried to open it in Word, but it wouldn't work.... I think my OS is crippled somehow...

  14. OOO OOO by Allnighterking · · Score: 2, Funny
    I need to start a new project called "Weeble Linux" Our motto will be

    Weeble Wobbles but it won't turn Blue"


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  15. Don't mind me... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    ...I'm just lying by the pool, soaking up the irony of you telling someone to grow the fuck up when your sig comes from The Lion King.

  16. Re:Pleasantly surprised by the+quick+brown+fox · · Score: 4, Funny
    I'd have put it down as yet another thing that'll pointlessly bloat applications in a year or two in order to satisfy the "Ooo look, pretty colours!" mob.

    We prefer to be called "Mac users", thankyouverymuch.