Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 9th Sep 2005 19:41 UTC, submitted by Anonymous
One of the most anticipated presentations at this year's KDE World Summit, better known as aKademy, was Zack Rusin's intriguing 'Beauty and Magic for KDE developers'. Zack is a long-time KDE developer who has recently been hired to work full time at Trolltech. As the developer conference continued, more and more people heard of the amazing visual effects (.avi) that Zack was going to demonstrate. Here is an interview with him.
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2005-07-07
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1. "performance of Komposé depends heavily on your CPU."
rather: performance of Komposé depends on your GPU!
2. "every window is represented by a scaled screenshot"
rather: every window is running in real time!
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I use Kompose and have followed it's development a bit. Basically those things are planned, but the author(s) is suffering a bit of a 'forced' chicken and egg type problem. Can't do "these things" in Kompose because most xservers / video cards would wind up rendering in software, Kompose isn't an Expose killer cause it doesn't do "these things". Kompose is just a smidgen ahead of the state of the linux desktop, I rather appreciate that the author(s) haven't rendered the program unusable for the majority of "Today's X Users" just to be on the bleeding edge... All of these things are in the cards (and probably source repository as well), it just doesn't make sense to force them on people before Xorg 7.0 & updated drivers becomes ubiquitous (well, for those of us that like to use the program today, anyway).