Xorg and Desktop Eyecandy

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Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday June 28, 2005 @02:42AM from the sounds-delicious-to-me dept.

BonoLeBonobo writes "Xorg is going to include a new acceleration architecture which will help desktops to have better eye-candy effects thanks to a better XRender, thus composite, acceleration. Developped by Zack Rusin, a KDE and Qt developper, this new feature should be present in Xorg in September. Porting the existing drivers to this new acceleration architecture should be easy."

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Desktop Eyecandy? by smittyoneeach · 2005-06-28 02:44 · Score: 5, Funny

Double dandy.
Even so,
No girls handy.
Fix your face,
Reveal you're randy.
Burma Shave.

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Get thee glass eyes, and, like a scurvy politician, seem to see things thou dost not.--King Lear
GLocutus of Xorg by Anonymous Coward · 2005-06-28 02:44 · Score: 4, Funny

You will be accelerated. Resistance is futile.
1. Re:GLocutus of Xorg by Randy+Wang · 2005-06-28 02:47 · Score: 1, Funny
  
  All your glitz are belong to us?
  
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  --- Egads, I glow in the dark!
2. Re:GLocutus of Xorg by Allen+Zadr · 2005-06-28 03:00 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  Move, Xorg
  Move, Xorg
  Move, Xorg
  
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  Kinetic stupidity has a new brand leader: Allen Zadr.
Re:Didn't want to fix existing bugs egh ? by Musteval · 2005-06-28 02:48 · Score: 2, Funny

*looks at Microsoft, particularly Luna*

*coughs loudly*

*is beaten by hired goons*

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Sweet by CleverNickedName · 2005-06-28 02:48 · Score: 5, Funny

I've been looking to change the font on my command line.

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Unfortunately, I am not Wil Wheaton
Re:do i fail it? by tomhudson · 2005-06-28 03:00 · Score: 1, Funny

Does the fp troll
misbehave
grunt and grumble
rant and rave?
shoot the brute some
Burma-Shave
... or just shoot him, period.

While you're at it, keep in mind that in Soviet Xorg, desktop displays you!
Re:Eye Candy V. Reliability by eno2001 · 2005-06-28 03:01 · Score: 2, Funny

Speaking of eye candy and reliablity/faithfullness- reminds me of my wife, although she is neither...

Huh? Are you saying that your wife is neither reliable nor faithful, or not eye candy? I don't get it.

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-"...bad old ideas look confusingly fresh when they are packaged as technology" - Jaron Lanier (Digital Maoism on Edge.o
Re:If you go by the past track record... by ynohoo · 2005-06-28 03:14 · Score: 2, Funny

NVidia is and has always been oders of magnitude above the rest.

you misspelled odors.

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need a free COBOL editor for Windows?
Re:Didn't want to fix existing bugs egh ? by mph_az · 2005-06-28 03:43 · Score: 2, Funny

*reads the post again*

*there is no tao on slashdot*

*I watch birds fly past*
But have you tried reverting? by NetRanger · 2005-06-28 04:00 · Score: 2, Funny

I found why we went to X11 -- I tried reverting to X10 and kept getting pop-up ads for voyeur cameras.

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-- We live in a world where lemonade is artificial and soap has real lemon.
um... who's bright idea was it by Anonymous Coward · 2005-06-28 04:39 · Score: 0, Funny

who's bright idea was it to post a story about eyecandy with NO EYE CANDY attached??
2010 Newsflash: this just in... by thehunger · 2005-06-28 05:00 · Score: 2, Funny
... Graphics card producer ATI has just released a new driver for the world's most popular desktop operating system, Linux. The driver will accellerate some, but not all 2D graphics operatings with X11R7. The company also announced it is accellerating its development process and published a new roadmap:
- 2011, ATI will have full 2D accelleration
- May 2012, the company expects to support the most important 3D operations in X
- Nov 2012, start support for extra functions of its graphics cards, such as TV-in and video decoding on Linux
- By 2015, ATI expects to have full support for all 2D/3D and multimedia functions for all its graphics cards on Linux
- Mar 2016, the company will accellerate development even further. It will start porting some, but not all, applications to Linux.
- Aug 2016, ATI will begin work to support versions of X released in the mean time, including X11R8, X11R9 and X11R10.
Re:Didn't want to fix existing bugs egh ? by Anonymous Coward · 2005-06-28 05:01 · Score: 1, Funny

Qaulity before features.

Do as I say, not as I do
Re:Didn't want to fix existing bugs egh ? by Anonymous Coward · 2005-06-28 05:24 · Score: 1, Funny

Maybe you should think about the meaning of the word "Qaulity"...
Taking this to it's natural conclusion by RdsArts · 2005-06-28 05:25 · Score: 2, Funny

My reaction to this was "Huh?" so I went and looked it up. Apparently, WikiPedia is a...
Can you guess which one? by Anonymous Coward · 2005-06-28 05:35 · Score: 3, Funny

"porting", "drivers", "new architecture", "easy"...

[blows pitchpipe, clears throat]
One of these things is not like the others,
One of these things just doesn't belong...

Thank you, thank you - I love you all!