On Fri, 2006-02-24 at 11:23 -0600, Kelsay, Brian - Kansas City, MO wrote:
One question, why would I want to watch a movie or play a game around a corner? I also don't understand the need to have a window go wavy as it is moved around the screen. Other than that, I like the window transparency, dimming, etc.
Yea, those 'features' are marginally useful. The stuff that makes sense, though: applications 'minimize', literally, to the tray. Also, applications never have to 'repaint' their view ports because, as far as they are concerned, they are never covered by another window -- they are just rendering to an abstract GL surface.
Presently, when you drag a window around on your desktop, all the apps which were dragged over have to repaint their contents. That's why your CPU utilization goes way up.