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Re: [News] New XGL Goodness: Motion Blur

__/ [ yttrx ] on Sunday 17 September 2006 15:03 \__

> [H]omer <spam@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>> __/ [ Gubo Dangle ] on Saturday 16 September 2006 20:57 \__
>>>> It happens that Roy Schestowitz formulated :
>> 
>>>>> Xgl / Compiz Motion Blur
>>>>>
>>>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>>>> | Demo of motion blur on a bleeding edge build, completely
>>>>> | unedited.
>>>>> `----
>>>>>
>>>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-Ln4xQhILs
>>>>>
>>>>> And that's a _low-quality_ video...
>> 
>>>> And there's a point to this feature?
>> 
>> I would have thought it obvious, since Gooey enhancements is pretty
>> much Vista's *only* selling point, and this video shows that XGL
>> already wipes the floor with Aero.
>>
> 
> And also, since its rooted in OpenGL calls, works on a much, much
> wider variety of hardware than Aero does.
> 
> Whoops, looks like Linux supports more hardware than windows.

...Hardware, _as well as_ operating systems. Being 'compartmentalised', you
could, in due time, fit Compix/XGL on top of OS X, BSD, etc.

Same scanario with X, GNOME, KDE and so forth (e.g., KDE has just gotten
packaged for OS X). These are services that are not 'glued' or nailed down
to a core using deep function calls and opaque decencies that make
maintenance impossible, especially for new developers (or ones that took a
long vacation) to embrace. The distributed nature of OSS (and Linux), joint
with establishment of API's has actually become a huge strength that
Microsoft can only envy. Without openness and protocols, communication and
modularisation is compromised.

Windows may (for the time being) have 'market share', but its momentum has
sunk to zero. If it doesn't revise all that code, things are bound to get
worse. Vista will have been under testing for _almost one year_! What new
stuff does it have to justify this? And why does it take months, as opposed
to hours, to issue and release patches? It's because the code has become a
games of Jenga < http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenga >. Move or change one
line of code and the whole core will collapse in unpredictable ways.

Best wishes,

Roy

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