Ok, many good points. But also, I can reproduce this bug very easily (indeed is it enough to enable TFP and open a few big windows on my hardware. You can keep maximizing browser windows for a while and tha all new windows get black), and I would be probably likely to be trying to investigate the bug and provide a patch (as I generally do for other bugs annoying me this way.. and also I'm sure many other around could do the same even better if they had the code). Anyway, agree with you that sw could make the difference between a card and another when talking about the performances of 3d HW.
Improving our GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap implementation's handling of out-of-videomemory scenarios (this is the cause of the "black window bug" when running Compiz or Beryl composite managers) Good to see that this issue is still wellknown to nvidia developers, this bug has been around for a lot of months and has never been addressed yet. This is the typical problem that open sourcing the drivers would solve in a much shorter timeframe I guess..
I think that if in more than one year they have not been able to deliver drivers supporting AIGLX/Beryl/Compiz, than probably there's something really wrong with their process. Maybe it's just they are not involving enough people in the development of the drivers, but in this case open sourcing the drivers would be a great idea. In any case at the moment I would never buy another ATI card, since I use almost only Linux and since Beryl/Compiz are one of the most compelling reasons for me currently to buy an accelerated graphic card.
As other pointed out, it's likely you are not using the browser discussed here. It is available only on the S60 3rd edition, it is based on KHTML and it is a real breakthough in the mobile area.
While I agree that Thunderbird has some advantages over Evolution (in particular better rendering of HTML emails and idle extension support in IMAP backend, i.e. asyncronous notification of new emails), some of you points are completely non-sense.
1. This is not a bug in effect. If you want to see the deleted messages, you can go in the Wiew menu and uncheck "Hide deleted messages". This feature is meant to allow you to un-delete messages. If you want to permanently delete these message you can use the Expugne command from the Actions menu' (you can use the shortcut (CTRL+e)
2. Same as above
3. View/Hide read messages
4. Evolution is currently being ported to win32, even though the port is not completed.
And, to reply to another comment down the thread, Evolution *has already* a good integration with SpamAssassin.
Anyway, Thunderbird has some strong points as I said, and the main reasons keeping me back to Evolutio currently are the overall integration with gnome and the calendar.
Evolution is a great application for calendars and email. I don't like the way tasks are handled, I'm looking for a better solution for this. Anyway I really don't understand way evolution is so poorly rated in this discussion at all...
Is there any plan to support fd.o composite extension for transparencies? I know the support in current xorg implementation is rather slow and not completely backward compatible, but up till now I've seen very little activity on this subject: metacity support is almost unexistant (in fact, if you want to use a composition manager, you'd better recompile metacity without composite support or switch to xfwm4). The two features I'm looking forward more shadows and transparencies and something like expose (currently there are only a couple of unmantained hacks.. see expocity and Skippy)
I'm afraid this is only a code binding, meaning that legacy Java apps will maintain the current look and feel, while new apps will be able to support GTK...
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Ok, many good points. But also, I can reproduce this bug very easily (indeed is it enough to enable TFP and open a few big windows on my hardware. You can keep maximizing browser windows for a while and tha all new windows get black), and I would be probably likely to be trying to investigate the bug and provide a patch (as I generally do for other bugs annoying me this way.. and also I'm sure many other around could do the same even better if they had the code).
Anyway, agree with you that sw could make the difference between a card and another when talking about the performances of 3d HW.
I think that if in more than one year they have not been able to deliver drivers supporting AIGLX/Beryl/Compiz, than probably there's something really wrong with their process.
Maybe it's just they are not involving enough people in the development of the drivers, but in this case open sourcing the drivers would be a great idea. In any case at the moment I would never buy another ATI card, since I use almost only Linux and since Beryl/Compiz are one of the most compelling reasons for me currently to buy an accelerated graphic card.
As other pointed out, it's likely you are not using the browser discussed here. It is available only on the S60 3rd edition, it is based on KHTML and it is a real breakthough in the mobile area.
You can find videos and more info here:
http://www.novell.com/linux/xglrelease/
While I agree that Thunderbird has some advantages over Evolution (in particular better rendering of HTML emails and idle extension support in IMAP backend, i.e. asyncronous notification of new emails), some of you points are completely non-sense.
1. This is not a bug in effect. If you want to see the deleted messages, you can go in the Wiew menu and uncheck "Hide deleted messages". This feature is meant to allow you to un-delete messages. If you want to permanently delete these message you can use the Expugne command from the Actions menu' (you can use the shortcut (CTRL+e)
2. Same as above
3. View/Hide read messages
4. Evolution is currently being ported to win32, even though the port is not completed.
And, to reply to another comment down the thread, Evolution *has already* a good integration with SpamAssassin.
Anyway, Thunderbird has some strong points as I said, and the main reasons keeping me back to Evolutio currently are the overall integration with gnome and the calendar.
Evolution is a great application for calendars and email. I don't like the way tasks are handled, I'm looking for a better solution for this. Anyway I really don't understand way evolution is so poorly rated in this discussion at all...
Is there any plan to support fd.o composite extension for transparencies? I know the support in current xorg implementation is rather slow and not completely backward compatible, but up till now I've seen very little activity on this subject: metacity support is almost unexistant (in fact, if you want to use a composition manager, you'd better recompile metacity without composite support or switch to xfwm4). The two features I'm looking forward more shadows and transparencies and something like expose (currently there are only a couple of unmantained hacks.. see expocity and Skippy)
I'm afraid this is only a code binding, meaning that legacy Java apps will maintain the current look and feel, while new apps will be able to support GTK...