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

Desktop Eyecandy?

[smittyoneeach]

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

Re:Desktop Eyecandy?

[AKAImBatman]

My reaction to this was "Huh?" so I went and looked it up. Apparently, Burma Shave was the company that developed the idea of stretching a message across several signs along the road. The idea was that people would tune in to the advertisement because they wanted to know what the punch line of the slogan would be. Apparently the scheme worked quite well, and we now see the concept in popular media such as Road Runner cartoons and the movie Rat Race. (You, Should, Have, Bought, A, Squirrel!) ;-)

Sweet

[CleverNickedName]

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

Eye Candy

[bombadillo]

An article about Desktop Eye Candy which has no screen shots to show off said, "Eye Candy"....

Some one find some screen shots or we will have nothing to talk about.

Dual Monitor Support

[xlr8ed]

To hell with the eye candy, why don't they worry about making dual monitor support as easy as it currently is in M$ OS's.

I would much perfer that over more "eyecandy"

Re:What users would really need for desktop linux.

[Nadir]

Actually X.org uses very little memory: it was designed to run in 16MB (or was it 8MB ?).
The memory you see being taken up by the X server can be attributed to several things: a mmaped framebuffer (if you have a 256MB videocard, the reported memory usage of X will include that), and server side shared pixmaps. It is really the applications' fault if this gets out of control.

Re:more extensions

[Otter]

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.

Re:I'll probably be modded down, but....

[jellomizer]

Eye Candy is not always bad. For example shadows under the windows and semitransperance helps the eye understand where the data is in a more realistic environment. Animations help the eye follow where the data is going.

For example on Max OS when you minimize a Window it does a fancy dgeni efect which allows your eyes know that the window just didn't go away but it shrunk into a spot on the dock. While the boxes on linux and windows does a simular thing the Mac method makes it more percises that you know the application is still running it is just smaller, while the linux and windows way makes a person feel the application has stopped when it was minimized.

Semi-Transparencies are good to. It help the person realize there is something under your window. There are a lot of times when an App is open and an other windows is on top of it and you don't know it is there.

Eyecandy when used correctly is not a waist of processing for trivial things but actually an important key in having people understand the environment.

Re:Didn't want to fix existing bugs egh ?

[Frank T. Lofaro Jr.]

This poster has a valid point.

Xorg crashes my machine on switching from X to a text VC.

This bug is well known and serious - all eye candy and other non-essentials should wait until this and other serious bugs are fixed.

Qaulity before features.

If I wanted it the other way around, I know where to buy Windows.