Brunellus
September 7th, 2006, 02:43 PM
http://www.gnome.org/start/2.16/
everybody's favorite desktop environment, GNOME, released v. 2.16 today.
My eyebrows went up as I read this in the release announcement regarding the window manager everybody loves to hate (Metacity):
Advanced 3D effects
Metacity, GNOME's default window manager, makes its first steps into the world of 3D accelerated desktop computing. Many extensions to its compositor engine let your windows wobble, shrink, explode, fade in and out, bounce on window focus, and show other interesting, unusual or funny effects such as having different transparency for different window types like menus, dialogs, and main windows.
Not yet enabled by default, new compositing affects are only available when Metacity is compiled with the special --enable-compositor option. The new compositing features also depend on support for the GLX_texture_from_pixmap extension, which is only available to owners of Intel i830 to i945, and ATI Radeon 7000 to 9250 chips at the present time.
“It's important to note,” says Vincent Untz, member of the GNOME release team, “that it's an ongoing work, and that more will come in 2.18”.
Once Metacity is compiled with the correct option, the effects can be turned on and off without a restart or new login, and applications can take advantage of this. For example, the GNOME terminal can now offer real transparency.
What, no love for nvidia users? I wonder when laptops with puny Intel integrated graphics will be able to kick out the eyecandy. I am already dreaming of a System76 Gazelle...with GNOME 2.16 eyecandy.
everybody's favorite desktop environment, GNOME, released v. 2.16 today.
My eyebrows went up as I read this in the release announcement regarding the window manager everybody loves to hate (Metacity):
Advanced 3D effects
Metacity, GNOME's default window manager, makes its first steps into the world of 3D accelerated desktop computing. Many extensions to its compositor engine let your windows wobble, shrink, explode, fade in and out, bounce on window focus, and show other interesting, unusual or funny effects such as having different transparency for different window types like menus, dialogs, and main windows.
Not yet enabled by default, new compositing affects are only available when Metacity is compiled with the special --enable-compositor option. The new compositing features also depend on support for the GLX_texture_from_pixmap extension, which is only available to owners of Intel i830 to i945, and ATI Radeon 7000 to 9250 chips at the present time.
“It's important to note,” says Vincent Untz, member of the GNOME release team, “that it's an ongoing work, and that more will come in 2.18”.
Once Metacity is compiled with the correct option, the effects can be turned on and off without a restart or new login, and applications can take advantage of this. For example, the GNOME terminal can now offer real transparency.
What, no love for nvidia users? I wonder when laptops with puny Intel integrated graphics will be able to kick out the eyecandy. I am already dreaming of a System76 Gazelle...with GNOME 2.16 eyecandy.