Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Mon 1st Jul 2002 17:50 UTC
David Dawes is maybe the most active XFree86 developer and he is also the lead founder of the project. He works for Tungsten Graphics, which is the main company working on the XFree, DRI and Mesa codebases today. We are happy to host an interview with David, discussing the present and future of XFree86 project. Update: Still confused how a VSYNCed desktop look like? Read here.
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ealm: well, i think with the evas example you just proved my point. To take advantage of the hardware acceleration you need to rewrite your app using evas. In other words: the apps you currently use (GTK apps, KDE apps, ...) won't suddenly work better because you've got hw-acceleration and evas.
No, but they won't currently stop working either, just because you've got evas running. IMO the weakness with projects like DirectFB, Berlin etc is that they ditch XF completely, and you have to have XF running in rootless anyway to be able to use your old apps. This feels kinda pointless, and it always is a big transition for developers who all need to learn the new way of coding GUIs.
OTOH with Evas you can still do it the old way, but you also have a new way of drawing pictures, primitives, text etc and you can put them in translucent layers. Evas coding also is very easy to learn. Take a look at this excellent (although not very up-to-date) guide to Evas:
http://enlightenment.org/pages/htmlized/evas/
Cheers