http://www.osnews.com/story/20454/Clutter_is_Good_for_Intel_s_Moblin_Linux Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2013, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Wed, 19 Jun 2013 05:21:12 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com http://www.osnews.com/thread?335482 http://www.osnews.com/thread?335482 see this is a really smart move, more and more CPU intensive UI stuff on the GPU is great. The question is, will it make a big impact on battery life for these smaller devices? Wed, 29 Oct 2008 20:59:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (poundsmack) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?335531 http://www.osnews.com/thread?335531 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.Edited 2008-10-29 22:43 UTC Wed, 29 Oct 2008 22:39:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (_txf_) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?335555 http://www.osnews.com/thread?335555 I have Ubuntu Netbook remix and the main application launcher is done in clutter. It performs nicely on my eee 1000. Wed, 29 Oct 2008 23:57:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (buff) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?335573 http://www.osnews.com/thread?335573 I'm really hoping that the GTK devs consider using clutter as a basis for their toolkit in GTK3. Its pretty freaking awesome to use if you ask me. Thu, 30 Oct 2008 01:10:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (apoclypse) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?335596 http://www.osnews.com/thread?335596 I don't want any moblins near my linux. Their spears are pointy and hurty.

http://www.zeldawiki.org/Moblin Thu, 30 Oct 2008 04:26:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (thebackwash) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?335623 http://www.osnews.com/thread?335623 as long as a device does not update the UI constantly, the battery life should be pretty much the same. wifi and bluetooth are surely more power-hungry than a GPU.

but if you want proof, just measure the time an ipod touch lasts without wifi enabled. Thu, 30 Oct 2008 10:35:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (ebassi) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?335626 http://www.osnews.com/thread?335626 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. Thu, 30 Oct 2008 10:53:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (3rdalbum) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?335628 http://www.osnews.com/thread?335628 http://www.clutter-project.org - The Clutter homepage Thu, 30 Oct 2008 11:24:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Clutter) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?335758 http://www.osnews.com/thread?335758 Hasn't this been done before, a la the RISC architecture? Video code sent to the video card, audio sent to the sound card.....etc? Fri, 31 Oct 2008 02:01:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Phloptical) Comments