Hi Thomas! Am Mittwoch, den 07.03.2007, 12:50 +0000 schrieb Thomas Wood:
> > I suggest we give MacSlow (CC'ed) till the end of the week to come up with > > something uber sexy. I'll give it a lame try if he doesn't. > > I thought this was GNOME we're talking about. We do professional > software, not pointless eye-candy, right? I'm not saying professional > looking software has to be boring, but there seems to be a tendency to > go over the top with GL effects on the desktop at the moment. The plan is to stick to pure gtk+/cairo for any effect-work. This is two-fold: 1.) The spread of GL-capable systems with proper drivers is still minimal I would guess. Even more so for the composited case looking at the state of X.org and OSS-drivers. 2.) gtk+/cairo are two core technologies of the GNOME-platform. It is a good idea to provide end-users, interested 3rd-party developers a nice single spot to see what power (graphics-wise) resides in the system they are sitting in front of. Something like gnome-about is far better suited for this than the average utility- or helper-program of GNOME. Furthermore I hope to get some design input from folks from gnome-art and/or the tango-project. It would help me with the work on this as I don't have much spare-time slots left unallocated :) BTW, please don't fall to the false assumption that a possible use of OpenGL would equal to "over-the-top-polygons-in-your-face" like some beryl videos on the net suggest :) Best regards... Mirco "MacSlow" Müller -- email - [EMAIL PROTECTED] www - http://macslow.thepimp.net lowfat - http://macslow.thepimp.net/sponsor-it _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list