{"id":1344,"date":"2005-12-22T00:45:19","date_gmt":"2005-12-21T22:45:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/2005\/12\/new-xorg-tonight-but-xgl-development-is-busted\/"},"modified":"2005-12-22T00:45:19","modified_gmt":"2005-12-21T22:45:19","slug":"new-xorg-tonight-but-xgl-development-is-busted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/2005\/12\/new-xorg-tonight-but-xgl-development-is-busted\/","title":{"rendered":"new xorg tonight, but Xgl development is busted."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"using<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\t\tAaron’s recent
\nblogentry<\/a> about the closed development process of Xgl made me reflect on the whole development
\nprocess of XFree86 and Xorg during the last years. The result of that is that people might say
\n“Well, if that brings me a working OpenGL-based X server any sooner, I’m all in for it”<\/em>,
\nbut sadly, those people miss the whole point. It’s not like removing external developers from the
\ndeveloping process and closing your doors is going to make Xgl development any faster. Quite the
\nopposite. (For those not in the know, Xgl is an X server that uses OpenGL for rendering graphics.
\nRendering graphics via OpenGL is much faster and allows for nice
\neffects<\/a>.)\n\t<\/p>\n

\n\t\tFunny detail, tonight, a double release of Xorg is planned. A traditional, monolithic
\nrelease, numbered 6.9 will be made available to us mere users, and another one, a modular tree with
\nthe magic version number 7.0 (read: seven-point-oh). The modular will further enhance the
\ndevelopment process of Xorg, in the future, release cycles will be much more flexible. Those two
\nreleases are the result of hard work during the last year, and have only been possible because
\ndevelopment of XFree86 has opened up in a fork, the Xorg. Yes, read again: Opened up<\/b>. An open
\ndevelopment process is a good thing<\/b>. The most popular free (and open) implementation of the
\nX11 protocol would never<\/b> have happened if the small team of developers hadn’t been broken
\nopen, resulting in more developers contributing to the project and X finally receiving the love it
\nhad longly needed. Development of XFree86 and Xorg has never before happend at such a fast pace. X
\non free operating systems has always been slow and dodgy, no fun at all. The last months especially
\nshow progress (e.g. EXA).
\n\t\t
The screenshot shows using recently added features of composite managers that make
\ntranslucent windows possible. In the screenshot, I’ve setup my desktop to make inactive windows
\ntranslucent, so that the focus is automatically attracted to the active window. The settings are
\noverdone to make the effect more clear. As soon as you move the window, it becomes translucent.
\nNewly opened windows fade in smoothly, it’s a pretty slick thing — and this is just the beginning
\nof what’s becoming possible on with the new X servers on the horizon.
By the way, if you’re not
\ncomfortable with X terminology, here’s
\na good read on the status of Linux graphics<\/a>.\n\t<\/p>\n

\n\t\tSo stop smoking crack and Open up!<\/b>\n\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Aaron’s recent blogentry about the closed development process of Xgl made me reflect on the whole development process of XFree86 and Xorg during the last years. The result of that is that people might say “Well, if that brings me a working OpenGL-based X server any sooner, I’m all in for it”, but sadly, those… Continue reading new xorg tonight, but Xgl development is busted.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kde"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}