X and Eye Candy
Jamon Camisso
jamon.camisso-H217xnMUJC0sA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org
Mon Mar 13 19:48:54 UTC 2006
Evan Leibovitch wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> I've downloaded and booted a copy of the Kororaa distribution, and I
> highly recommend that others here have a look at this glimpse at the
> future of the open source desktop.
>
> This is a live CD distro (it _can't_ install on your HD), based on
> Gentoo, for systems with NVidea or ATI cards that can do hardare-based
> OpenGL. This distro essentially demos the XGL hardware acceleration
> stuff that Novell contributed not long ago, and it is really something.
> Have a look at the demos a http://www.novell.com/linux/xglrelease/
> and/or then see them for yourself by booting Kororaa. While this
> particular live CD is based on GNOME (which is funny for a distro whose
> name starts with "K"), I'm looking forward to seeing this applied to a
> KDE-based system. It adds all kinds of interesting features *and* runs
> faster than regular X, by taking advantage of hardware video acceleration.
>
> In a similar vein here, has anyone here installed either KBFX or
> SuperKaramba? If so, what did you think of them?
I've tried using XGL on KDE with transparency -- it works rather well.
Most documentation on it is written for Gnome, but it works.
Superkaramba is great -- take a look at my desktop here:
http://jamonation.com/images/snapshot6.jpg
KBFX Vista is the custom Kmenu button, mtaskbar2 is the taskbar applet
that shows a preview of this very message vs. just the plain text of
taskbar v1. Superkaramba should be rather self evident.
Sorry if the quality is a little off -- I've scaled down to 1280x960
from my normal desktop resolution.
Has anyone tinkered with AIGLX yet? It sounds like it will be a more
practical eye candy solution vs. replacing xserver (if I understand
correctly, XGL is an entire xserver replacement?).
Jamon
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