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Owen Taylor and Havoc Pennington Interview

Submitted by stro on Wed, 2002-10-09 00:56. Interviews
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From OSNews:
Arguably, the new unified UI on Red Hat 8 was the talk of the town for the whole summer since the Limbo betas. Today we talk with two of the leading people behind Red Hat's enhanced usability and UI found on 8.0-Psyche, Havoc Pennington (also known for his work on the Metacity window manager) and Owen Taylor (lots of cool stuff on XFree's side). We discuss about XFree and its capabilities, about Linux's ability to fullfil a modern desktop for every user, about the unification of Qt and GTK+ and more.

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Re: Owen Taylor and Havoc Pennington Interview

Submitted by Anonymous George on Thu, 2002-10-10 02:59.

Smooth window moving is just a buzz word for drawing windows using shared buffers during the virtual synchronisation of the monitor.

(pfew, all in one sentence ;) )

In normal English this means that the window moving would be way more smooth (and because of the shared buffers you won't see any window damage either)

And it's faster since you only have to blit those shared buffers into the framebuffer.. (instead of hundreds of other operations like lines, rectangles, etc.)

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