Kommentare zu: KWin effects in Windows Vista

Von: Paul Gideon Dann

Paul Gideon Dann — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 11:49:10 +0000

Well done — a well thought-out April Fool It’s always nice to come across one that someone’s put a good bit of work into!

Von: Diederik van der Boor

Diederik van der Boor — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 11:07:45 +0000

I think the people who did fell for the joke are now all in silence… :-p

(I at least did believe it for a moment… hehe, good joke!!)

Von: Dread Knight

Dread Knight — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 00:40:21 +0000

*yawn*

Von: Martin

Martin — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 21:36:22 +0000

@Markus: AFAIK the Aero Part is written in Direct3D and provides only a Direct3D interface. At least I remember that MS wanted to disable OpenGL completely when Aero is enabled.

The reason why I said that it requires Windows Vista is that Vista is the first Windows release with Compositing support (called Aero).

Von: Markus

Markus — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 21:29:32 +0000

That joke could have been done better. For example, Vista is the fist Windows release that ships with accelerated OpenGL out of the box. So that Direct 3D porting crap could have been cut and instead the GL support could’ve been cited as a reason why it’s Vista only.

Von: Regenwald

Regenwald — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 19:50:40 +0000

haha wie gut! habs geglaubt

Von: Anonon

Anonon — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 19:42:36 +0000

On the other hand, there are programs like “Switcher” that use the Aero engine realize an Expose like effect. So in the end, the whole idea is not THAT much of a joke. Yet I guess the code base would need some heavy lifting to make it cross-platform

Von: Gunder

Gunder — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 19:31:33 +0000

Ooh… hmm… April Fools?

Von: AdeBe

AdeBe — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 19:18:29 +0000

1 April, I don’t believe You!

Von: Med

Med — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 18:58:50 +0000

One of the most elaborated April fools i have seen today.