[Just Talk] Re: [linux-audio-user] Why we need graphic designers

[Darren Landrum]

On Wednesday, January 22, 2003, at 07:06 AM, Steve Harris wrote:

> Something I've been thinking of recently is palming off the rendering 
> to
> OpenGL, modern cards have large texture memories so they can hold most 
> of
> the graphics on the card, and not need to bother the main RAM.

Interesting that you would mention Macintosh and this in the same day, 
as this is how Quartz Extreme on OS 10.2 works. All of the UI code is 
fobbed off onto your video card, if it has enough memory. (If not, it 
uses standard Quartz). Since I have a Mac (the dual 1Ghz model) with a 
good enough card and OS 10.2, I can attest that the results are 
actually quite nice. Using OpenGL for your UI also gives you some nifty 
options you don't get under standard 2D drawing.

I seem to recall a Linux-related project to make a window manager that 
was OpenGL running on a video card. I can't recall the name of it 
offhand, though.

And I agree, we need graphic designers. I may try my hand at it, if I 
find some free time. (At this point, that's a big if. :)

Regards,
Darren Landrum