Xgl timeframe?

[Lee Revell]

On Tue, 2006-02-14 at 21:54 -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 11, 2006 at 02:14:44PM -0500, Lee Revell wrote:
> > On Sat, 2006-02-11 at 11:19 -0700, Andrew Jorgensen wrote:
> > > On 2/11/06, Lionel Dricot (aka Ploum) <zeploum at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > >  - Does it have blink-blink-translucent window ?
> > > 
> > > I don't care one bit about the translucency, but I do care a lot about
> > > eliminating redraw.  Drag a window around on top of another window to
> > > see what I'm talking about.  It's really awful the way X works now.
> > > 
> > 
> > THANK YOU!  Until we fix that, Windows users will consider Linux a joke.
> 
> I have heard this claim made for a very wide variety of pet features over
> the years, none of which have turned out to be the "magic bullet" that
> converts the rest of the world to Linux when it is implemented.  Meanwhile,
> studies continue to show that Linux market share is growing steadily.
> 
> One interpretation of the available evidence would be that different users
> have different priorities when it comes to their software.  ;-)

Yep, you are right... it's the combination of hundreds of little
features like this that will give us even increasing market share.  This
one might even disappear before it gets "fixed", due to hardware getting
faster...

Lee