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Linux and desktop graphics
Linux and desktop graphics
Posted Sep 1, 2005 7:06 UTC (Thu) by anselm (subscriber, #2796)In reply to: Linux and desktop graphics by tjc
Parent article: Linux and desktop graphics
> There are a lot of people who never use 3D for anything, other than
> perhaps a screensaver.
This is beside the point. Most of these people *will* be using 3D in
the guise of a system like Windows or MacOS that does everything in 3D,
even if it looks 2D.
Anselm
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Linux and desktop graphics
Posted Sep 1, 2005 18:09 UTC (Thu) by tjc (subscriber, #137) [Link]
This is beside the point. Most of these people *will* be using 3D [snip]
Thanks for the prophetic utterance...
Linux and desktop graphics
Posted Sep 2, 2005 6:24 UTC (Fri) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091) [Link]
Actually, it's not very prophetic. I don't know about Windows, but on Mac OS X it is like that today. Apple calls it Quartz Extreme, and it makes every window an OpenGL object.
Linux and desktop graphics
Posted Sep 8, 2005 21:59 UTC (Thu) by barrygould (guest, #4774) [Link]
Windows Vista will allegedly work similarly.