Comment Re:YES!!! I have waited so long for this! (Score 1) 456
Ah! Finally somebody who cares about the stuff that really matters :-D . Thanks for the info. I have been dismayed with the lack of progress on the eye-candy front. Maybe now that can start to be addressed.
From a UI standpoint, a good framework for compositing and transparency will open up the door for awesome innovations... little things that make all the difference. For instance, I don't know if I could survive if I had to go back to life before Quicksilver and Growl and Exposé. A little work with interfaces like this on linux, and a super-light window manager like fluxbox, and we could have a totally new GUI layout. We could get rid of the reliance on cumbersome taskbars and start menues that have plagued (imho) the windowing world for so many years.
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Don't believe everything you think.
From a UI standpoint, a good framework for compositing and transparency will open up the door for awesome innovations... little things that make all the difference. For instance, I don't know if I could survive if I had to go back to life before Quicksilver and Growl and Exposé. A little work with interfaces like this on linux, and a super-light window manager like fluxbox, and we could have a totally new GUI layout. We could get rid of the reliance on cumbersome taskbars and start menues that have plagued (imho) the windowing world for so many years.
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Don't believe everything you think.
