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KDE SC 4.7 May Use OpenGL 3 For Compositing

Posted by timothy on from the that's-software-compilation-to-you dept.

An anonymous reader writes "KDE SC 4.5 is about to be released and KDE SC 4.6 is being discussed. However, Martin Graesslin has revealed some details about what they are planning for KDE 4.7. According to Martin's blog post, they are looking at OpenGL 3.0 to provide the compositing effects in KDE SC 4.7. OpenGL 3.0 provides support for frame buffer objects, hardware instancing, vertex array objects, and sRGB framebuffers."

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  1. Re:GPL: Intellectual Theft by lengau · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Definitely a troll, considering the token ring and defrag comments.

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  2. Re:At some point you have to update by nurb432 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    No, I have been a user of KDE since pre 1.x and as a loyal CUSTOMER I'm not pleased with how its getting progressively bloated with each new version and am now demanding speed and efficiency instead of useless eyecandy.

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