Afterstep 2.0 Beta Includes XML Graphics System 214
vaevictus writes "Afterstep just released its 2.0 Beta 1, after a long merge from its development branch. One of the most interesting new features is an XML-based graphics system, where any picture for any part of the WM can be a simple chunk of XML, which can do transformations, scaling, gradients and some other nice graphics mods. I've personally used this to cut my 1600x1200 image size from a 2.4mb PNG to a total of about 37kb. This leads to some very compact themes. If you're not familiar, AfterStep is one of the older WMs out there still in active development; all of you WindowMaker fans should check out the WM your WM branched off of, so long ago."
mirror, maybe muahhaa (Score:4, Funny)
echo "http://digitalXuXhi.com/aX2/www.afterXtep.org/"|
why'm i being a tool? cause only the people who want to visit will paste. mirrors take 10x the bandwidth with a link. so, if anyone translates my url into a link that gets modded over 1, i'll just remove the mirror
XML Image format? (Score:3, Funny)
<picture width="100" height="100">
<pixel>
<element x="0" y="0">
<component name="red" value="10"
<component name="green" value="255"
<component name="blue" value="10"
</element>
</pixel>
</picture>
The good news (Score:5, Funny)
That's the good news. The bad news is the WM now eats up 300MB of memory, instead of 30.
Boo advancement!!! (Score:4, Funny)
On a more serious note, 8 years ago I used Afterstep. It was the easiest thing to hack through the config files and make it do what ever I wanted to with a minimum of fuss, real estate, processor time, or color space allocation (a big thing on a Sun Classic sporting only a CG3).
Between then an now I've lived with Enlightenment, Window Maker, Gnome, KDE and OSX, yet for my work box I still use Afterstep. Maybe it's because it has a minimal number of doodads to distract me from doing actual work?
Re:XML Image format? (Score:5, Funny)
</picture type=jpeg>
<data encoding=32_bit_little _endian_binary_written_in_an_acsii_string_in=32_l
1010101100101001010000111010101010100010001010101 0101010001010101......
</data>
</picture>
Y DIY? (Score:4, Funny)
Linux rox!
ps - don't tell anyone I actually spend 90% my free time in Windows playing embarrassing adolescent video games.
Hmmm. (Score:1, Funny)
Re:XML Image format? (Score:3, Funny)
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Re:Hmmm. (Score:2, Funny)
Re:mirror, maybe muahhaa (Score:3, Funny)
You posted with a karma bonus, so no one has modded you up, and no one is now likely to. Grandparent said he'd pull the mirror if the post was modded above 1.
Re:XML Image format? (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Lamous Front Page Editing :-( (Score:2, Funny)
<xml_graph type="svg">
<svg_data>blah blah blah</svg_data>
</xml_graph>
<xml_gra ph type="png">
<png_data>blah blah blah</png_data>
</xml_graph>
etc.
PS {SORRY: should have previewed}
request to window maker users (Score:3, Funny)
Actually, this also applies to all users of .*box as well.
Thanks.
Seriously, WM is not nearly as configurable as AS. I don't use AS, but I'm going to check it out just for the heck of it.
Yes!!! (Score:2, Funny)
I'll keep you posted...
Re:XML Image format? (Score:1, Funny)