On Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:33:17 +0800, Zak B. Elep <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yeah, even true transparency. Its one of the things WinXP has over > XFree86, the lack of subtle eye-candy that doesn't have cholesterol...
One thing that drew me in (and am eagerly anticipating) are the Damage extensions + the Render Manager. I had been thinking that that solution would be the most natural. > > Considering Longhorn's Avalon is still 3 years away, it > > looks Linux may indeed have a fighting chance in the GUI > > department. (Keith Packard's essays on keithp.com are a > > /must read/ for anyone interested in future *nix GUI > > technologies) > > > > Then let's start contributing! :D 3 years is such a short time, and I > think that part's always against us. Let's make the best of it while > they're in limbo! Definitely. :) > I believe they do. But it still is experimental and requires X.org's > source. I believe that the freedesktop.org team has an alternative, highly-modular X server (based on kdrive). That one is experimental. The X.org codebase is a fork of XFree86 4.x, AFAICT -- JM Ibanez http://www.livejournal.com/~jmibanez/ http://www.mycgiserver.com/~butiki/ -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
