Re: [Desktop_architects] Xgl controversy

2005-12-23 Thread Nat Friedman
On Fri, 2005-12-23 at 14:02 -0700, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > with the merge in February, will development on the next iteration be open or > closed? e.g. is this going to be a code dump or something more useful in the > long term? Total merge, long term useful. One tree to rule them all, etc. Na

Re: [Desktop_architects] Xgl controversy

2005-12-23 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Friday 23 December 2005 09:33, Nat Friedman wrote: > As for the future, David has been planning to clean up what he's working > on now and get it in a functional/mergeable state. The plan is to get > it working and merged as soon as possible, but he's shooting > specifically for XDevConf, which

Re: [Desktop_architects] Xgl controversy

2005-12-23 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Friday 23 December 2005 09:33, Nat Friedman wrote: > For the first 10 or 12 months of development, there was no material > outside contribution to Xgl. ... > largely functional state as fast as possible, without external drag. so nobody was contributing to it (really implying nobo

Re: [Desktop_architects] Xgl controversy

2005-12-23 Thread Zack Rusin
On Friday 23 December 2005 17:33, Nat Friedman wrote: > We'd like to make a splash with something that is largely functional. > That way, the world will take notice of Xgl in a big way and Novell > can get some credit for having been by far the principle sponsor of > this development for more than

Re: [Desktop_architects] Xgl controversy

2005-12-23 Thread Nat Friedman
On Thu, 2005-12-22 at 03:31 -0800, Dan Kegel wrote: > http://lwn.net/Articles/165205/ Hey, We have been sponsoring Xgl development here at Novell. David Reveman has been devoting a large portion of his time to Xgl for the last fifteen months or so. As far as I know, we are the only company (ie

Re: [Desktop_architects] Xgl controversy

2005-12-22 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Thursday 22 December 2005 08:49, Hubert Figuiere wrote: > Shall I remind people how important eye-candy can be, yes, eye candy is important. it's also important to recognize that XGL, COMPOSITE and other such concept are allowing us to do things in the UI we couldn't do that improve usability

Re: [Desktop_architects] Xgl controversy

2005-12-22 Thread Hubert Figuiere
On 22/12/05 06:31 am, Dan Kegel wrote: > For those who haven't seen it already: > a bit of controversy over closed development of Xgl: > http://lwn.net/Articles/165205/ > http://aseigo.blogspot.com/2005/12/wouldnt-be-it-be-nice.html The LWN article is restricted. But there is this one too: htt

[Desktop_architects] Xgl controversy

2005-12-22 Thread Dan Kegel
For those who haven't seen it already: a bit of controversy over closed development of Xgl: http://lwn.net/Articles/165205/ http://aseigo.blogspot.com/2005/12/wouldnt-be-it-be-nice.html -- Wine for Windows ISVs: http://kegel.com/wine/isv ___ Desktop_arc