#Windows 93 net trollbox windows#
"FX" like menu transparencies (as you mentioned elsewhere) isn't even remotely the same as the window animations originally being discussed and being demonstrated in the Windows 93 demo linked to and for a multitude of reasons:Ģ (i) For starters you're overlaying within the same window. Nobody said compositing had to happen in hardware.Ģ.
#Windows 93 net trollbox software#
> And not only KWIN did that, a lot of WM's did different FX in software by either using XRender or custom coding (such as Afterstep).ġ.
#Windows 93 net trollbox plus#
Plus the novelty factor just isn't there now like it was back in 00s.ģ.
There's just no need when most of the popular desktop environments ship their own compositing WMs. It's also worth noting that almost no new users would be using Compiz these days anyway. So I'd be careful about assuming your audience when commenting on here.Ģ (ii). I've been running Slackware since the 90s and I know from previous conversations I'm far from a unique case. Furthermore, HN is a technical crowd so I'm sure most on here have been using Linux at least that long. The length of time you've been using Linux isn't a useful yardstick for how much more you might know stuffĢ (i). Then why are you flipflopping between different stacks of libraries as if they're one and the same?Ģ. > And I know XRender is not a WM, FFS, my first distro was Debian Woody so I know my shit better than those Compiz bling-bling new users.ġ. Though even there, you'd likely still want to go down the compositing route because it's much easier. Even in your Xrender point, the window animations in Linux would still have to be done via a compositing window manager such as Kwin - which supports both Xrander and OpenGL libraries.ģ (i).or if not a compositing WM, an entirely separate display manager replacing X. Xrender, in this context, would be equivalent to OpenGL (albeit one uses hardware frame buffers et al and the other uses software).ģ.
The comment about compositing was window managers, not X.
You then decided to interpret my entire post to mean something quite different.Ģ. Compiz was mentioned as a comparison to give an idea of time lines. We are talking about how the composite extension for X was a must for FXġ.
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