Xorg and Desktop Eyecandy

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."

Comments

Didn't want to fix existing bugs egh ?

[Anonymous Coward]

so we added more eye candy !

open source in a nutshell

Re:Eye Candy V. Reliability

[Antonymous Flower]

Speaking of eye candy and reliablity/faithfullness- reminds me of my wife, although she is neither...
Sort of like my cell phone- I don't care about features, I just want one that actually gets good reception when used as a phone....

As opposed to your wife, who just wants the camera to take a good picture while she's pretending to have poor reception.

it will never happen

[mnemonic_]

The Open Source community is viciously conservative about these things. Maybe that's why they insist on forcing users to learn the innerworkings of software instead of just letting them use it. That's why we'll never see "./configure; make; make install" replaced by a graphical installer, and why Linux will never make inroads to the desktop like Windows.

Users want ease and flexibility; preinstalled X.org and KDE etc. provides the former, but the tedium of poring through manpages and configuring text files prevents the latter. The day every open source app includes a graphical installer (can you imagine that? installing X.org by clicking "Install"!) would be a momentous day when I'd truly feel comfortable recommending Linux as an alternative to Windows.

Re:Hell...just solve the crash problem....

[Otter]

I've seen those Gentoo forum discussions -- while trying to solve the fact that an upgrade to gcc has somehow hosed my X setup (?!?). Yeah, Linux is definitely ready for the desktop...

So, don't ask me -- I'm more screwed than you.