On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 09:06:06PM +0000, Steve Harris wrote: > > Thge UI is 2D (you turn off perspective before you draw), its just a > way of loading all the images and stuff onto the card, and making it > do the drawing maths. It saves a /lot/ of cpu. Its more-or-less how > the latest OSX GUI code works, and its very efficient.
In a recent interview, Linus was quoted as saying this is where X itself is heading. I'm very curious about what he meant more specifically and if there is beta code available; generic 2D OpenGL rendering of the whole GUI would be immensely nice. http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php?id=568003838&fp=16&fpid=0 Jesper
