Q-collective wijst ons op een nieuwe uitgifte van X.org, de open-sourceversie van XFree86 4.4 RC2. De update heeft versienummer 6.8.0 meegekregen en kan via deze mirrorserver gedownload worden. X.Org is verantwoordelijk voor de communicatie tussen software en hardware (muis, toetsenbord, beeldschermen). Dankzij de open source instelling van de makers kan de tweaker zijn desktop precies zo aanpassen en inrichten als hij of zij wil. Hierbij kan bijvoorbeeld gebruik worden gemaakt van desktop environments zoals KDE en Gnome. Hieronder zijn de release notes gepost van de nieuwe 6.8.0-release:
In response to demand of users and application developers, X.Org's X11R6.8 brings forward widely anticipated fundamental facilities through this release. They include the first X Window System support for:These new facilities, some of which are still considered experimental, and so not enabled by default, have been under development for several years. Once completed and deployed, they will enable X Window System desktop projects, such as Gnome and KDE, to greatly extend their visual user interface vocabulary while still ensuring uncompromised support for existing applications, even surpassing current state of the art in competing window systems.
- Translucent windows
- Window animation, window decorations like shadows
- Support for accessibility applications
- Support for 3D immersive user environments like=20 Looking Glass(1) and Croquet
- Support for large scale display walls using DMX(3)
These facilities will enable easy implementation of thumbnailing, screen magnifiers for accessibility, translucent windows, menus, drop shadows, and even integration of conventional applications into 3D immersive environments. They are the result of open collaboration within the freedesktop.org community, desktop projects, and the X Window System user and developer community.