> From: "=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Michael=20J.=20Hu=DFmann?="
<michael_at_michael-hussmann.de>
> Subject: Re: [NTLK] [OT] NCU-like software native MacOS X: what prevents it
> Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 20:27:36 +0100
>
>
> Eckhart Koeppen (eck1000_at_gmx.net) wrote:
>
>> But seriously, I think that the 2D imaging model of Quartz is a big step
>> forward from the simple schemes of event-driven display models like X
>> and Windows with their refresh-on-demand. Surely, it does put a lot of
>> load on the CPU and the memory (a pixel on the screen does not belong to
>> one application at a time anymore but is the outcome of blending the all
>> stacked windows together), but I think it is worth it.
>
> Who needs this, and for what?
Uh, no such questions regarding GUIs! Once you start that way, you will be
back to the command line very quickly!
I use a hack on OSX that deactivates the shadows, and it does improve the
overall speed quite a lot, especially as I am running OSX on an iBook 600.
The good: No shadows mean more speed.
The bad: The OS does not look half as good, pull-downs optically blend with
windows...
The very good: I have an excellent AQUA Scheme for OS9 that gives me lots of
speed and still has shadows & transparancy *g*
Oliver ;)
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