With Moblin 2.0, Intel is integrating in an open source technology called Clutter. Clutter is an open source animation framework that allows for the development of applications in the same way you would develop games. The underlying complexity is abstracted such that intricate UI can be built with a minimum of code. "Because it's developed like a game engine, all the graphics happen on the GPU, freeing up CPU do to application work," he said. "When combing with Atom and the various GPU's we use in Moblin supported platforms, you end up with advanced UI platforms. We really think it will create a huge opportunity for application innovation on top of Moblin."
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seeing as the gpu is a specialized processor, having it do the graphics in theory should be more efficient in terms of energy consumption. However I doubt that it would use less energy than having no gpu. But developing guis as one would a game does make it more or less imperative to use the gpu.
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I don't want any moblins near my linux. Their spears are pointy and hurty.
http://www.zeldawiki.org/Moblin
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I love the idea of using Clutter; firstly it allows flashy interfaces, secondly it's very easy to write a Clutter-based UI (especially in Python), thirdly it runs on desktop as well as mobile so you can write a program once and have it run on both platforms.
The only problem is that there's very little in the way of Python-Clutter tutorials! I managed to find two very basic ones, but none about how to get the meaty stuff happening. Intel definitely needs to supply more Clutter documentation so we can start using it on the desktop.
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http://www.clutter-project.org - The Clutter homepage
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