Re: [SLUG] Super 3D in X-windows

From: Richard Morgan (rmorgan@heavysystems.com)
Date: Mon Mar 13 2006 - 10:15:12 EST


Quoting steve szmidt <steve@szmidt.org>:

> I'd love to see this under my KDE setup but I'm not entirely sold on it's
> rotating value other than for effect. I do however love the ability to move
> windows around without any dragging refresh following the window.

There's some practical value to XGL - different windows can have
different color
depths. Now console windows in X don't have to be rendered in 24-bit color
taking up way more memory than you need. 8-bit color console windows
is a nice
added benefit saving memory and increasing performance.

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