Plasma 2 With KDE Frameworks 5 Looks Awesome

[Awesomeness]

And when exactly (OpenGL composited) KWin offloading CPU for windows management under X? Since backing store is here, it uses more CPU cycles even for moving windows.

I'm not completely sure what you were trying to say – seems one or more words are missing. Fact is, the X process uses lots of CPU power when moving windows without compositing (on my hardware ~40%). With compositing and despite the use of several effects (shadow, fade, and transparency) the X process stays around 4% with a short spike to 8%.

[gedgon]

I'm not completely sure what you were trying to say – seems one or more words are missing. Fact is, the X process uses lots of CPU power when moving windows without compositing (on my hardware ~40%). With compositing and despite the use of several effects (shadow, fade, and transparency) the X process stays around 4% with a short spike to 8%.

Your graphics drivers sux then.

From x.org old docs:

5.15. Option ``backingstore''
This is not specifically a driver option. It is used to enable the server's support for backing store, a mechanism by which pixel data for occluded window regions is remembered by the server thereby alleviating the need to send expose events to X clients when the data needs to be redisplayed.

On nvidia card, it's 2-3% single 1.6Ghz Sandy Bridge core (when uncomposited, of course)

[curaga]

Weeeell, this thread sure took a surprising turn. Ponies and /a/ discussion here?

[Luke_Wolf]

I've seen most of the stuff you listed, I only listed the stuff I was able to watch as a kid as that is what Ericg was implying was in his list. Nobody here had the internet at home when I was a kid, hell I was one of the only people that had a computer at home at the time, having dumpster dived and repaired a 286SX and a 486DX when I was 12. The VHS tapes where too expensive at $30 each at the Suncoast so we had Toonami at the one kid who's parents had cable TV with the package that had Cartoon Network and what little we could manage to agree on watching on school computers with incredibly an slow connection that half the time someone either killed the download or turned the machine off, they where setup so that they reverted back to a clean state at boot so nothing could be saved. None of the comps had burners or Zip drives and none of us could afford one at those times anyways. Only option was 1.44Mb floppy disks.

So yeah, as a kid our viewing options where limited, but you could find allot of really crappy animes on other channels that we could get with OTA or basic cable.

mm, I had the fortune of having an older brother who was interested in it and a library that stocked the tapes, manga, and later DVDs which got around the cost issue so what I listed in that first list was the stuff I watched through my childhood and teenage years, and yeah the OTA selection was very limited and generally very meh although there was some good western animation through the 90s and maybe up to the early to mid 2000s such as batman beyond and redwall.

Still though to consider the titles he listed good indicates he hasn't really watched much of anything beyond the popular stuff which tends to be mostly shonen-jump which is well.... shonen-jump.. and there's still good stuff still being made you just have to be looking at more than "What's popular?"

[Luke_Wolf]

Maybe not exactly FPS style, but it's something big corps were thinking about. IIRC Apple even filled some patent papers for cube-like 3D desktop with windows free-floating inside. With advanced controlers like kinect it even could make a sense for mediacenter and likes.
Just think you could manipulate windows and it's content just like real objects with gestures of hands.

Mm.. but just think about the possibilities... I mean your desktop could basically become a game engine and there could be game modules available through GHNS and say you need to work on something you just throw Qt Creator or whatever on a surface and work on it while you're "in game" and if they can make it use telepathy you can have multiplayer capability, you could make HUDs out of plasmoids and yeah... it might not be that productive but people like myself would use it, and you'd get a lot of people drawn in using it because it's just awesome tech and fun.

[aliquis]

If only they could also make user interfaces which didn't sucked, (I don't know what I think about the tightly integrated software dependencies either) and a decent media player. JuK works fine for music but what about video? That new music player on S I haven't tried because there's no opensuse packages for it (it's not a KDE application either, but it's written with Qt at least.)

Wobbling and transparencies doesn't make a good UI.

[zanny]

If only they could also make user interfaces which didn't sucked, (I don't know what I think about the tightly integrated software dependencies either) and a decent media player. JuK works fine for music but what about video? That new music player on S I haven't tried because there's no opensuse packages for it (it's not a KDE application either, but it's written with Qt at least.)

Wobbling and transparencies doesn't make a good UI.

Kaffeine has been the best tv recording experience I've had on Linux. At least that I can get my grandmother to use. tvheadend is way too complex and Myth is a buggy mess.

For video playback I just use VLC. It uses qt as well. Though I also use Clementine for music.