Re: Exciting GNOME?

[Jamie McCracken <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk>]

Jeff Waugh wrote:
> <quote who="Jeff Waugh">
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> > Particularly with GTK+ 2.8 on the horizon, we should be looking at
> > leapfrogging the current best effort [2], no matching it. :-)
>
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> > [2] That has got to be OS X.
>
>
> Also, a theme so good that it would unify vendor appearance of GNOME. So
> good that vendors would be pathalogically stupid or so focused on their rear
> intake not to adopt it.

The snag is any theme that is so awesome will probably be dog slow on 
the current theme engines. If we want the ultimate theme we would need 
an opengl theme engine (think dynamic lights, shadows, high quality 
textures all running at blistering speed) which would give us 
photorealistic quality (unlike all the cartoonish quality of most of the 
current crop).

With Cairo and Xorg this should now be possible technically. Of course 
for the poor sods that dont have accelerated opengl we will still need a 
sensible default for them.

jamie.