If it cannot work properly without 3D hardware acceleration it is useless. Having 3D hardware acceleration as a requirement for the desktop equals incompetent developers and useless code base. That’ll put us ahead of any competition.ģD and desktops do not belong together. Let’s get rid of KDE and Gnome and build the Desktop on GNUstep. It has the responsiveness of BeOS/SkyOS/Syllable, but on the *nix platform, effectively proving that the problem is not the X-server, but the DE’s on top of it. ![]() GNUstep shows how to things right on the *nix platform. Software should be written to work well, and not written to look well.ĭespite (or perhaps because of) all the fancy hanky-panky in OS X, Vista and KDE/Gnome, GNUstep is still a much more powerful platform. However, he _is_ right about the usefullnes. They do not add anything useful, but they do add extra overhead. ![]() To top this off, he also informs us that graphical effects don’t add anything, which is of course simply wrong. Now apart from the fact that I have yet to see any proof for this, I think it’s pretty obvious that someone who is a great X hacker might neither be willing, nor particularly well skilled to contribute to, say, open office. Thanks for ignoring all this.įinally, he also likes to engage in the falacy that working on things like XGL somehow diminishes the development on other things, he deems to be important. Apart from the fact that people enjoy them, they of course give developers more options to develop effects that actually enhance usability, for example, by giving better feedback and they can and are used for accessibility feature. ![]() Bohoho, so using this alpha software he gets lower frame rates in his games… Just an other stupid rant by someone who equates technical progress that makes sense, that is, actually using the gpu to draw the desktop, with some videos he has seen about one window manager that isn’t even beta yet but uses this new technology for some fancy effects.Īs if this wasn’t stupid enough, he also acts as if problems that exists with this new technology (wow, new technology having problems), were in any way inherent to that technology. However, after reading the article now I’d say the broken link was more of a blessing than a curse.
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