NeoBrain - Slashdot User

Comment Re:A window manager tied to DRIVERS??? (Score 1) 148

by NeoBrain on Thursday February 23, 2012 @04:33PM (#39140285) Attached to: KDE KWin May Drop Support For AMD Catalyst Drivers

It's not tied to drivers, it's tied to OpenGL 2.0 support. Seeing how the OpenGL 2.0 spec has been out for more than 7 years, that is a pretty modest requirement. it's just that apparently the GPU driver devs at AMD aren't capable of properly supporting it, though. Also note that KWin is still usuable without OpenGL 2.0 support, you just won't be able to enable desktop effects then. IIRC it's possible to enable desktop effects when using LLVMPipe (a software rasterizer using Gallium3D), but the current mesa swrast just is too slow for running desktop effects without killing performance I guess.

Comment Re:but wait.... (Score 1) 348

by NeoBrain on Tuesday February 17, 2009 @12:12PM (#26887831) Attached to: Malware Threat To GNOME and KDE

You can still adjust the folder view to show the contents of the Desktop folder. If there's a .desktop file in there, clicking on that file will just behave as with other DEs.

Demo of Spatially Aware Blocks 109

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Friday February 13, 2009 @01:51PM from the but-will-they-survive-my-2-year-old dept.

Chris Anderson writes "This 5-min demo just posted from last week's TED — got a big crowd reaction. It's a new technology coming out of MIT, about to be commercialized. Siftables have been seen before, but not like this. They're toy blocks/tiles that are spatially aware and interact with each other in very cool ways. Initial use may be as toys, but there's big potential for new paradigm of spatially-aware physical mini computers."

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