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Xorg and Desktop Eyecandy

Posted by CmdrTaco on 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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  1. Re:more extensions by Otter · · Score: 5, Interesting
    well the core of X hasn't changed substantially in .. over a decade.

    The X Consortium shut down in 1996, after declaring X11R6.3. At this point, it's not clear how an accepted X12 standard could be generated, even if people wanted to do so.

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