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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. The previews are really great too! by jurt1235 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Well, anyway, the messages are plain text. I think only the opensource community can get away with this. Try to present your plans and execute them in a business without a decent (=lots of graphics) presentation.

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  2. steve ballmer, slashdot spelling style: by MoobY · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    developpers, developpers, developpers!

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  3. Re:Perfect. What is? by rennen · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I built my own http//gentoo.org/ desktop, and it works great for what I need. I use a dual head nvidia with nvidia drivers. Gnome works pretty damn well if you ask me. I have no complaints that resemble anything that sucks. I can do everything and more than I could in Windows.

  4. Re:do i fail it? by daniil · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You fail it.
    Burma Shave.

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  5. Re:Concentrate on decent font supp -- mod parent u by 0xABADC0DA · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Me: Here's a hint: when people say they've tried damn near everything

    JustSomeGuy: No you didn't. You said that you tried a few things but completely left out how you tried to go about them.

    Original post: I have wasted hour after hour following various FAQs, playing with antialiasing, autohinting, and subpixel rendering in my ~/.fonts.conf. I have installed the Bitstream Vera fonts. I have sacrificed a goat and done a rain dance. And still, all those fonts look so blurry that I feel like I'm going blind.

    What, you think people have gone to all those lengths but nobody thought to try the freakin' subpixel rendering button in preferences? This is /. not aol.

    Read the context for christ sake! When I say "yes, I agree, I have also done those things" and you say "but you just said 'those things' not what they were" without reading the post I was replying to, that makes you a 'tard. One with +4 moderation, but still a tard.