Comments on: Do it with style!

By: reaping one

reaping one — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 00:16:56 +0000

hi, first of all I’d like to say awesome work there, I’m currently writing a media center for linux using pygtk and glade and have been thinking of implementing an opengl renderer to use transitions for those who have hardware acceleration, and have been looking at using clutter to do this, but when I saw this demo i thought this would be perfect and would save me so much time as i can use my existing glade interface and push widgets offscreen, and all the widgets i want to use transitions on are in eventboxes anyway. So i guess the biggest question is have you releases the sources for this yet? and if so I saw that you were going to do it through launchpad, I have never used that before and was wondering how i access your project?

many thanks for any advice, and keep up the awesome work you are a legend

By: Tanja Short

Tanja Short — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 15:39:47 +0000

Great art. Can’t wait to see it in stable condition to use on my box.
This kind of software will surely change how humans and computers interact.

By: elvyse

elvyse — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 20:53:06 +0000

Jet Set Radio Future for the win!

By: gord allott

gord allott — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 17:20:35 +0000

I am all for modernisation of gui toolkits, but i have to ask, what about the lowley people who don\’t have graphics card acceleration? i would be concerned about coding anything like this if it did not have an implicit fallback mode for people who don\’t have the requirements, such as no animation but same functionality.

By: MacSlow

MacSlow — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 21:38:41 +0000

@ Lucas: Well the examples are about 2000 lines of code. Of those 2000 lines 1100 are GL-code, which is boiler-plate to get the usual things going. I could strip it down further… certainly. The gtk+-related code is just a few lines. I think getting this into gtk+ and create a patch for upstream would be a very nice thing indeed!

@ Radek: I use a combination of xvidcap 1.1.6, ImageMagick (convert) and gstreamer (gst-launch-0.10).

@ Jon: Pah, who cares for version-numbers

@ mike: Wow… what can I say.

@ rcaree: Hehe, you’re welcome!

@ Henrique: For the approach I use, one does not need a composited desktop. Put differently, compiz does not need to be running. Only a working GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap implementation in your graphics-driver is needed.

By: Henrique

Henrique — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 20:15:35 +0000

Wow. Looks like a lot of fun MacSlow!

I hope this can make its way upstream, surely a lot of apps can do nice new tricks with this. Any idea how those widgets can behave when compositing is not available (like a "go in legacy" mode)?

By: rcaree

rcaree — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 21:18:50 +0000

Congratulaitons !!!!!!!!! Great Job !!!! Thanks !!!

By: mike

mike — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 13:22:11 +0000

The only thing I can say: You really know what you’re doing!

Creating such wonderful things on your own really gives you my complete respect.

By: ll

ll — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 12:42:11 +0000

That second demo was hot! The murrine theme screens too.

By: Jon Cooper

Jon Cooper — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 11:19:28 +0000

We have libsexy, now we need libmacslowisagod …. maybe even make it part of the platform!

Also, Murrine is looking AWESOME. So much cool stuff, and not even a platform "bump" to 4.0 in sight