Thursday, March 24 2005 @ 07:25 PM EST Contributed by: glosser
"In the year 2000..." What will the future of the desktop be? What cool visual effects can developers dream up? Well, here we see actual videos of concepts mentioned previously by some GNOME developers. Are they useful, or just cool looking? You be the judge.
Since he caught a glimpse of Kristian's wobbly windows, Bryan has stalked Red Hat's dark and hallowed halls, breathing fire, demanding his chance in the directorial seat. So it is that we bring you Monkey Hoot productions first, uh, production. Since a lot of people have asked, these videos show Luminocity running on two different laptops, both with fairly slow/old video cards (Intel i830 and ATI Radeon 7500 mobility) and open source drivers.
Luminocity
Kristian showing off his spring-modeled "wobbly windows" effect in Luminocity,Owen's crack-tastic OpenGL based window/compositing manager. This is the only effect that requires GL hardware acceleration in Luminocity (and not even much at that, Kristian's development machine uses an embedded Intel video card). Notice that menus and tooltips are also animated as they pop on and off the screen. The animation effects on window impulses are implementable in a modular manner, allowing anyone to write new effects. Monkey Hoot productions would like to thank "The Blair Witch Project" for its inspirational camera work and lighting, and apologize to our viewers.
