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X graphics get a boost (NewsForge)
X graphics get a boost (NewsForge)
Posted Feb 8, 2006 13:59 UTC (Wed) by carcassonne (guest, #31569)Parent article: X graphics get a boost (NewsForge)
Kinda nice, but I think I'll stay with simply pressing a key combination to immediately switch to another KDE desktop. Without the rotating dizzying cube, that is. I don't see the point in that.
And also, that's the first time nowadays that I can click on an app and get it running in a very short time - with this dual core AMD X2 with 4 GB of RAM - that I won't find ways to slow this process down. At least not in the near future.
I want to enjoy speed for a little while !
Call me oldtimer, but what else will be there ? Apps that jumps at you and stops with a screeching sound of brakes ? ;-)
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X graphics get a boost (NewsForge)
Posted Feb 8, 2006 14:45 UTC (Wed) by elanthis (subscriber, #6227) [Link]
[quote]Kinda nice, but I think I'll stay with simply pressing a key combination to immediately switch to another KDE desktop. Without the rotating dizzying cube, that is. I don't see the point in that.[/quote]
The point is that for people who don't understand virtual desktops, it makes their use and function a little more obvious. To many people it just seems like a way of hiding windows. With this, it is obvious that it changes the workspace entirely.
And you'll always be able to switch off the animation. (If not, file a bug against whichever WM/compositor you're using that forces the animations.)
[quote]And also, that's the first time nowadays that I can click on an app and get it running in a very short time - with this dual core AMD X2 with 4 GB of RAM - that I won't find ways to slow this process down. At least not in the near future.[/quote]
This new technology should only speed things up, on the graphics end of things. Any slowdowns aren't going to be because of X, they're going to be from things like laoding too many libraries or fonts or other data. (Read the GTK+ performance improvement articles by Federico for an exmaple of the kind of stuff that makes GUI apps slow; X itself is never at fault, though sometimes apps which misuse X cause slowdowns.)
[quote]Call me oldtimer, but what else will be there ? Apps that jumps at you and stops with a screeching sound of brakes ? ;-) [/quote]
Someone somewhere will want that. They can do it. You can ignore it.
It's open source, after all. So long as there is someone who wants it done the "old way," there will be someone who makes sure the old way still works.
X graphics get a boost (NewsForge)
Posted Feb 8, 2006 15:51 UTC (Wed) by hein.zelle (guest, #33324) [Link]
The point is that for people who don't understand virtual desktops, it makes their use and function a little more obvious. To many people it just seems like a way of hiding windows. With this, it is obvious that it changes the workspace entirely.Although this is probably true for a new linux user or one that comes from a windows background, the concept of desktop switching should take about 3 minutes to explain and get used to. In my opinion the problem is not to get people to understand what happens, but to get them to try it out in the first place. I see a lot of new linux users that simply don't realize the feature exists, and I doubt a visualization of desktop switching is going to improve that, given that they don't switch desktops period.
for what it's worth
Posted Feb 9, 2006 8:20 UTC (Thu) by niner (subscriber, #26151) [Link]
You don't need XGl for nifty 3D desktop paging. I've used 3ddesktop for that for years: http://desk3d.sourceforge.net/I bound it to Alt+Esc, so when I want to impress some friends who are not familiar with the multi desktop aproach, I can use it quickly. Explains it instantly what I am talking about. And sometimes it could even be useful, since I recognice the desktop I'm searching for a little faster than with the window list I normally get.
But I'm curious how it'll look like when videos still run while paging and such stuff :)