Jose Victor Matin Jr. wrote:
> He wasn't referring to OS X and XP GUI speed as slow. > He merely stated that Athene redraw's FASTER than those > two. Only X was referred to as having slow redraws.
That I understood. I just meant to comment that I'm quite happy with redraw speed on OS X and WinXP so that would not be a plus for Athene vis-a-vis with these two.
There are tons more stuff going on behind the scenes with Windows and OS X (and even X) versus Atehene so it's not an apples-to-apples comparison by a long shot.
It's pretty likely that if Athene/Snap based desktops have all the bells and whistles of these more mature environments, there will be a corresponding speed degradation in widget responsiveness.
Still, this looks like fertile ground for those developers seeking an alternative graphics architecture for desktop Linux, who aren't ideologically married to the GPL or even Open Source, and who like to opportunity (or have the masochistic streak ;-) to do/invent things from scratch on what could be a well-engineered and probably even superior (to existing Linux solutions at least), base.
Scitech, the guys behind SNAP, have been around for a long time and do seem to know their low-level graphics technology. Even if you believe in sticking to X, their graphics driver for X (XFree-compatible, I believe) looks like a good product to consider using.
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