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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. And for those older machines? by nurb432 · · Score: 0, Troll

    I assume that for those that have older machines and are stuck with pure software implementations of openGL kde will now become unusable.

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    1. Re:And for those older machines? by nurb432 · · Score: 0, Troll

      IF i have to RTFA then what value is a summary? Or Slashdot at all? The entire point is to aggregate news so you don't have to run off and read every single story out there at its original source.

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    2. Re:And for those older machines? by coryking · · Score: 0, Troll

      But it isn't good hardware! It is old, slow, buggy, and most of all power hungry. Besides, it is *expensive* to maintain older hardware. Expensive because it is harder to find parts, harder to find support, and harder to find software that is compatible with it. Not to mention people, like you (and those that for some reason moderated you up), tend to do it all for spite. Spite = stress, which is not good for your body, so even in those terms it is expensive

      So my advice to you is to toss your old crap and buy new hardware. It won't kill you, I promise.

      If you still refuse, I have to ask why you bother reading a technology website when you clearly hate technology (or at least modern technology)? It is one of the things that bugs me about slashdot (and lands the site in my firewall every so often to break the damn time sink)--why are so many people here such damn Luddites?

  2. Interesting by mark72005 · · Score: 0, Troll

    I recently took a long break from Linux et al., and this is exactly what people were writing about GNOME when last I checked.

    KDE was it, and GNOME was designed for idiots, so only idiots used it.

    The winds of change

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

    Since when is payment a requirement of being a customer? Hint: Its not.

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