Xgl, wow!

[Daniel Kos]

You missed the point. All about opengl desktop is to have fully  
accelerated, flicker free drawing system
(which allow you to do better, more advanced gui apps).
All that effect are only the side effect. They were implemented to show  
the power of opengl desktop, not to
make your work more efficient.

Dnia Mon, 20 Mar 2006 20:22:04 +0100, Georg Wrede <georg.wrede at nospam.org>  
napisał:

>> Has anyone seen this?
>>  http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-199899523054020719&q=linux
>
> Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhh!   8-(
>
> Just what I needed to really BOOST my productivity!
>
> Fading menus: in the eighties, folks had green monitors with long  
> afterglow. We got fade-in fade-out menus and stuff for free. Everybody  
> hated it, and you had to pay double for a white-phosphor monitor that  
> didn't do it. Now you have to pay extra to get a graphics card that can  
> handle it.
>
> Overlapping, transparent movies: Yippeeee, now I can watch 24 episodes  
> and Shaft, all at the same time and in the same position. Schizophrenia,  
>   embrace me, take me away, hahaaa hehee. (But I bet you can't have  
> THREE movies on top of each other, buahahhahhaha. I'll wait till you get  
> 5.)
>
> Rubber windows: OMG, how have we ever managed with sheets of paper on  
> the desk???? Of course they should be made of condom latex. And they  
> could have post-it glue round the edges, so that whenever I grab a sheet  
> it goes wawawawa-spaff on me.
>
> Transparency: nice fake, but I still bet you can see only one level  
> deep. And so what if you really could see several levels deep? Oh yes,  
> the I could edit two different programs at the same time. Too bad they  
> don't give away 3d glasses so I could see what lines of text belong to  
> which program. (Without coloring them differently, of course.) So if we  
> really needed that, then the Letter Size (or A4 for Europe) in my office  
> would be *translucent* condom latex. Ever since 50 years back!
>
> Cube thing: gee, it sure is "faster or otherwise more productive" to  
> play dice with the screens, than just switching between screens, right?
>
> Movie over cube edge: Now this is an essential! I always wanted to fold  
> my LCD screen round the corner. That way I can see half the movie  
> wherever I am.
>
> ==================
>
> What is it with people??? Everyone just has to have something the others  
> don't. Who cares if it's useful or downright a burden! Kings used to  
> walk around with 10 pounds of gold on their head. Gee. Half the people  
> in my country just have to have cars with 200hp engines, although the  
> speed limit is 75mph (120km/h) on freeways and 50 (80) elsewhere.
>
> (And I'm not going to quote what feminists say the reason is, this is a  
> family site, after all.)
>
> It used to be a standing joke that M$ is in cohoots with hardware  
> manufacturers. Every time they double the computer speed M$ wastes it  
> with the next Windows. Well, now even Linux distros are getting there.
>
> ==================
>
> I've got 2 800MHz laptops as my main portables, with 250MB 20GB, and  
> they sure are ample for all job related stuff that I ever need.
>
> But trying to run that kind of "improved" UI on them, forget about it.  
> And to buy a Game Grade tabletop just so one can run the GUI -- a total  
> waste of money. Besides, what's the point of having a server-capable OS  
> in it if you waste all power to the eye-candy stuff?



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uno (unodgs at tlen.pl)