On Feb 1, 2008 2:42 PM, Dimitris Glezos <dimitris@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Feb 1, 2008 3:15 PM, Rahul Sundaram <sundaram@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Valent Turkovic wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > In Fedora there is a option "Enable desktop effects" but it looks from > > > users point of view that it is there only so that nobody can't say > > > that fedora project doesn't have 3D desktop feature. > > > > You are being obnoxious. AIGLX which is used in most distributions for > > "3D desktops" today was developed with Fedora. > > Maybe Valent is right, that for a *user* (someone unaware of what's > under the hood, and, moreover, who coded it) looking at > desktop-efffects, it may indeed seem that way. If it does, then we're > not giving the correct picture out there. Which is something that > nowadays we all agree we should work on fixing. > > -d I know that you are devels here and that have the other insight that I users do (like me), but please look at it from my perpective. First I know that red hat developers made aiglx (I bloged about it 3 years ago) but since a lot has happened. Novell put out XGL and compiz worked only with XGL in the beginning (novell got a lot of heat for that) and now compiz works with both XGL and aiglx. Then came beryl... and finaly compiz-fusion project. And although I know that all those project benefited from aiglx the general perspection is that "beryl" or now "compiz-fusion" enables 3D to desktop, users don't know that Fedora and Red hat are to thank for most of that. Not for the part of Fedra - I saw lots of distros that enabled "3D Desktop" even as back as 3 releases ago... and Fedora still does not. I read the blog post Rahul gave me and I thought as much - great developers in fedora and red hat want thing to work better so they are fixing issues and not releasing to early. I understand that. Other distros may have gone and enabled it and had more issues that they had positive feedback or and maybe they had more positive feedback, I don't know. This question arose when I saw how fedora pushes the envelope of a modern desktop on many fronts - PulseAudio being just one of them, and using them before other distros, and compare that to 3D Dektop feature looks like 3D desktop is being ignored - this is ofcourse just from a users point of view because I know that there is lot of work "under the hood" that normal users don't see. Valent. -- http://kernelreloaded.blog385.com/ linux, blog, anime, spirituality, windsurf, wireless registered as user #367004 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org. ICQ: 2125241, Skype: valent.turkovic -- Fedora-desktop-list mailing list Fedora-desktop-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-desktop-list
