From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 12 10:27:44 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D256616A4CE for ; Wed, 12 Nov 2003 10:27:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from mta1.adelphia.net (mta1.adelphia.net [68.168.78.175]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C8C1143F93 for ; Wed, 12 Nov 2003 10:27:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from potentialtech.com ([68.68.113.33]) by mta1.adelphia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.05 201-253-122-130-105-20030824) with ESMTP id <20031112183112.XMEU19889.mta1.adelphia.net@potentialtech.com>; Wed, 12 Nov 2003 13:31:12 -0500 Message-ID: <3FB27B9E.2000902@potentialtech.com> Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 13:27:42 -0500 From: Bill Moran User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20031005 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Miguel Mendez References: <20031112184850.0f752d52.flynn@energyhq.es.eu.org> In-Reply-To: <20031112184850.0f752d52.flynn@energyhq.es.eu.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The future of X? X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 18:27:45 -0000 Miguel Mendez wrote: > Several places have commented on the subject already, it's currently on > /. as well. The relevant link: > http://freedesktop.org/~keithp/screenshots/ > > So, I'm wondering, what do you guys think about the dropshadow and > transparent windows thing Mr. Packard and friends are working on? Could > it help on the adoption of *ix on the desktop? I personally don't mind > some eye candy now and then, so, as long as it can be turned off, it > looks good in my book. I've read some comments saying that some people > get a better undestanding of the desktop if the windows cast a shadow. > On the negative side, I don't think having 3 forks is that good > (XFree86, Xouvert and this stuff). FWIW, the screenshots sure are pretty :) Isn't there another project trying to put together a replacement for X? I thought it was called "Berlin", but I can't find it anywhere on the net, so I can't be sure. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com