Re: Next Generation Desktop UI

[Sean Middleditch <elanthis awesomeplay com>]

On Mon, 2004-04-05 at 22:40 +0100, Alan Cox wrote:

> On Llu, 2004-04-05 at 21:55, Sean Middleditch wrote:
> > Which is unfortunate, given that even cheap hardware these days can
> > accelerate this sort of stuff.  :(  RENDER I think provides primitives
> > for this sort of stuff (does Nautilus use that?) but I don't believe
> > it's reliably accelerated in many drivers at all.
> 
> Render can accelerate it but you will need the Keith Packard X server to
> handle this. The render acceleration in the XFree86/Xorg server is a bit

Well, for the chipsets it supports, anyways.  ;-)  KDrive isn't all that
ready for user consumption at the moment, either.  Which, as I
understand, it isn't really *intended* to be.

> minimal, and without it you end up fetching from video memory, which is
> another thing the XFree86/Xorg server is completely crap at handling.

Yuck.

> 
> Unfortunate combination of effects.

No kidding.  Hopefully something that will improve, tho...

> 
> Alan
> 
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Sean Middleditch <elanthis awesomeplay com>
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