The Null Device

Fresco M1

Hey penguinheads; remember Berlin, the superdoovy new windowing/rendering system that was going to replace X and usher in a new era of peace, prosperity and seamless translucent, rotated windows? Well, the project didn't die; it's now named Fresco and Milestone 1 came out a few days ago. And here are some screenshots. Nice to know that they've gotten beyond the "look, translucent rectangles!" stage. Still looks a bit rough, but the technology looks promising. I'll probably play with it at some stage. (via slashdot)

There are 2 comments on "Fresco M1":

Posted by: richard http://mechanicalcat.net/cgi-bin/log Mon Nov 25 05:14:10 2002

Yeah, and they use Roundup, so they rock :)

Posted by: gjw http://the-fix.org Mon Nov 25 13:57:05 2002

Rotated windows are a nice toy, but I'm really hoping for something to (hopefully seamlessly) replace X once and for all. This project seems to be coming along very slowly, unfortunately. Linux needs the equivalent of BeOS's "App_Server" - a very simple, functional and fast GUI, instead of the layer-upon-layer-upon-layer setup that we use at the moment. Just take a gander at how fonts are handled in X at the moment: Type 1 + TrueType * (Font server or X) * Xft * GUI toolkit. And even then the results are often appauling.