Vista, etc.

[Simon]

A friend of mine bought a Macbook fully intending to put Linux on it.
Also, there must be other practical uses for AIGLX than just this,
like accelerating remote clients, which I _assume_ is possible now.  I
also would say it got merged basically because it adds optional new
functionality without breaking anything.

On 12/21/06, Jamon Camisso <jamon.camisso-H217xnMUJC0sA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Simon wrote:
> > In Compiz/Beryl's defense, that Mac-ish bouncy icon bar is a separate
> > project, and you can turn off any other effects you find nauseating,
> > there's a modular plugin system with plenty of options.  I've only
> > ever used compiz, and it was about 6 months ago, but I'm sure that one
> > can find a decent reason to run Compiz or Beryl as a WM.
>
> Such that Xorg 7 has AIGLX built in and active by default in many
> distros (Fedora, Ubuntu). In fact, Fedora Core 6 features a simple 2
> check box dialog to turn effects on and off. For those easily nauseated,
> they've at least done the courteous thing and made sure the effects (not
> the Xorg module) are off by default.
>
> I for one have sold a few people on Ubuntu and Fedora on the basis of
> the nifty Beryl effects, so like them or not, they are impressive and
> fun for many in the under 30 crowd :p Even to the Mac OSX fans--one
> friend, a New Media geek--switched to Ubuntu on his new MacBook... go
> figure.
>
> > On 12/21/06, Kevin Cozens <kcozens-qazKcTl6WRFWk0Htik3J/w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> >> Aaron Vegh wrote:
> >> > For those who didn't know about Beryl, this YouTube video tells all:
> >> >
> >> > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0ZtcxHUSDQ
> >> >
> >> > I think we'll all be in trouble when we confuse nifty eye candy for a
> >> > truly usable system. It looks better for about 15 minutes, then you
> >> > get annoyed.
> >>
> >> Interesting. Its the first YouTube video I've been able to watch. Only
> >> one
> >> minor hesitation near the start then the res ot if it played smoothly.
> >>
> >> That Beryl desktop looked fine for a moment when it first booted. The
> >> toolbar
> >> across the bottom reminded me of what I've been on the Mac's at a
> >> local store.
> >> Once the person started interating with it, it all started to look rather
> >> sick. I don't mean sick as in good but as in nauseating.
> >>
> >> The web page says "Above all else, the project seeks to listen to and
> >> respond
> >> to the requests of the user base." so I want to know who is the user
> >> base?
> >> Mostly kids who are spend most of their time playing games?
> >>
> >> I'd like to know how one gets the Beryl desktop so I can be sure to
> >> stay far
> >> away from it. I can think of better ways to make use of CPU/GPU
> >> processing
> >> abilities.
> >>
> >> --
> >> Cheers!
> >>
> >> Kevin.
> >>
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