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Re: Burn My Windows

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Post by jeff_vader »

StillBored wrote: post #56

This is cool, but the fact that its written in JS tells me just about everything I need to know about gnome... JS has its place, using it for systems programming isn't one of them IMHO, since I prefer to have the core of my computation stack slim and fast. I can almost forgive the electron apps their piggyness given the desire to build cross platform, but gnome? Yah, no thanks.

I find it interesting since JavaScript in this case is only "glue" language. Actual effects are hardware (?) shaders: https://github.com/Schneegans/Burn-My-Windows/blob/main/src/... .. Had no idea this is possible.

Re: Burn My Windows

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Post by BoxOfRain »

stevepike wrote: post #36
canbus wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Bragging about wobbly windows was the best thing ever. I'm glad I'm not alone!

I still use wobbly windows on KDE and it fills me with warm nostalgia.

I'm almost ashamed to admit how large of a reason wobbly windows working out of the box is for my continued preference for KDE in most cases. Does anyone know what the status of '00s desktop effects is on other common DEs? I'd guess it'd be easier to achieve on MATE than Cinnamon for example, though I've always liked Cinnamon.

Re: Burn My Windows

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Post by massysett »

reaperducer wrote: post #28
netizen-936824 wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Multiple desktops on a rotating cube tho. Shit was straight fire

I don't see why Apple couldn't introduce this to its desktop switching routine. The cube animation already exists for switching users. It would be nice to have the option when switching desktops.

That's just it. Apple would rather provide One True Way to do it. On Mac, cube = switch user, and slide = switch desktop.

Re: Burn My Windows

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Post by JonathonW »

vultour wrote: post #39
lobstrosity420 wrote: post #15

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>I don't think many people will contribute with a rule like that Why do you think that is?

I don't even know how to type an emoji on my computer

They're not actually emoji; they're shortcodes that get rendered out to emoji in the Github interface. (Which, IMO, is worse than actually using emoji, but easier to type, I suppose.)

    935e922 (HEAD -> main, origin/main, origin/HEAD) :tada: Bump version number
    aeec220 (tag: v7) Merge branch 'feature/3d-noise'
    17fae26 :lipstick: Tweak labels
    a331736 :twisted_rightwards_arrows: Merge pull request #21 from Schneegans/feature/3d-noise

Re: Burn My Windows

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Post by nerdponx »

StillBored wrote: post #56

This is cool, but the fact that its written in JS tells me just about everything I need to know about gnome... JS has its place, using it for systems programming isn't one of them IMHO, since I prefer to have the core of my computation stack slim and fast. I can almost forgive the electron apps their piggyness given the desire to build cross platform, but gnome? Yah, no thanks.

The JS usage in this case isn't any different from Python or Ruby or Perl or Tcl.

Re: Burn My Windows

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Post by kleer001 »

nvr219 wrote: post #62

I use Mate with all the animations turned off and this kind of stuff makes me realize I am an elderly, soulless fuck

Same, but KDE fwiw. Yuck. I don't need it, I don't want it, get it away from me. But I'll be the last to yuck someone's yum. Have at it y'all. It's just not for me.

Re: Burn My Windows

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Post by ridethebike »

marcodiego wrote: post #26

Compiz was probably the single most impactful event for desktop linux of the mid 2000's. Not that it itself made much of a difference, but the ripples affect many areas we take for granted today. A few reasons: - it put linux ahead of windows and mac in terms of appearance; - it brought many new users and most were a good mix technical and enthusiasts; - it showed the advantages of modular software; - many plugins we…

I remember when Compiz was released. It was mind-blowing, its sheer awesomeness was something out of this world. "ok, Windows is done" me and my friends thought, "prepare for linux dominating the desktops".

Yet ~15 years later here we are.

Re: Burn My Windows

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Post by BugsJustFindMe »

marcodiego wrote: post #26

Compiz was probably the single most impactful event for desktop linux of the mid 2000's. Not that it itself made much of a difference, but the ripples affect many areas we take for granted today. A few reasons: - it put linux ahead of windows and mac in terms of appearance; - it brought many new users and most were a good mix technical and enthusiasts; - it showed the advantages of modular software; - many plugins we…

Bunch of rose-tinted hogwash, this.

> It pioneered useful things like selecting an area of the screen and saving it directly to a file

Pioneered? This was a standard feature on Macs since January 1997.

> It also showed how important compositing was on the desktop.

No, that would be the Quartz and Quartz Extreme compositors released with Mac OSX 10.0-10.2 years prior.

Compiz in the mid 2000s was a mixture of catching up to established ideas and a bunch of cute but useless visual wastes of time. It didn't pioneer anything except novelty display plugins and was quickly made obsolete when people realized that wobbly transition effects got very old very fast.

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