On Thursday 20 April 2006 23:33, Nick Wiltshire wrote: > Until recent discussions on this list I hadn't heard much about XGL but > I've been watching demo videos and drooling on my keyboard. > > One question - all the examples I've seen are Gnome. Is it/will it be > possible to see some of these effects in KDE as well?
of course =) that said: xgl is still 1-2 years away from being truly useful. it took from 1999 until probably around 2004 for COMPOSITE to go from initial proof of concept (where XGL basically is right now) to broadly useful, and we're -still- only starting to deliver proper compositing managers. amazing, huh? there are a number of architectural weaknesses both in xgl and in X.org itself that have yet to be worked out. and xgl isn't broadly accepted either (*cough*nVidia*cough*) so there's political/social work to be done as well. the good news is that it moves the FOSS world forward a bit more, and it's fun stuff to turn on and play around with. i'd personally keep my eyes more on developments such as the pixmap-as-texture features in x.org (which aren't opengl specific, let alone xgl specific), better compositing engines (which deliver a lot more than eye candy) and glucose which is a way to opportunistically accelerate features like xgl does but without requiring quite so much special case handling and other hoops ... -- Aaron J. Seigo GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1EA EE75 D6B7 2EB1 A7F1 DB43 Full time KDE developer sponsored by Trolltech (http://www.trolltech.com)
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