Looking at Lumina Desktop 2.0

TrueOS, formerly PC-BSD, has a desktop environment called Lumina. It’s getting a big overhaul for Lumina 2.0, and this short interview gives some more details about what’s coming.

With Lumina Desktop 2.0 we will finally achieve our long-term goal of turning Lumina into a complete, end-to-end management system for the graphical session and removing all the current runtime dependencies from Lumina 1.x (Fluxbox, xscreensaver, compton/xcompmgr). The functionality from those utilities is now provided by Lumina Desktop itself.

[…]

The entire graphical interface has been written in QML in order to fully-utilize hardware-based GPU acceleration with OpenGL while the backend logic and management systems are still written entirely in C++. This results in blazing fast performance on the backend systems (myriad multi-threaded C++ objects) as well as a smooth and responsive graphical interface with all the bells and whistles (drag and drop, compositing, shading, etc).

38 Comments

  1. 2018-03-13 1:44 am
    • 2018-03-13 3:09 am
    • 2018-03-13 7:34 am
      • 2018-03-16 8:59 am
  2. 2018-03-13 4:15 am
  3. 2018-03-13 6:04 am
  4. 2018-03-13 7:12 am
    • 2018-03-13 10:06 am
    • 2018-03-13 5:15 pm
      • 2018-03-13 6:56 pm
        • 2018-03-13 8:02 pm
          • 2018-03-13 8:50 pm
          • 2018-03-14 9:09 pm
          • 2018-03-15 2:53 am
          • 2018-03-15 6:53 pm
          • 2018-03-15 8:53 pm
          • 2018-03-16 12:38 am
          • 2018-03-16 3:25 am
          • 2018-03-16 8:38 pm
          • 2018-03-15 10:38 pm
          • 2018-03-16 12:45 am
          • 2018-03-19 12:03 am
      • 2018-03-13 8:43 pm
        • 2018-03-13 10:00 pm
          • 2018-03-14 12:00 am
          • 2018-03-14 7:00 am
          • 2018-03-14 6:30 am
          • 2018-03-14 6:45 am
  5. 2018-03-13 1:58 pm
  6. 2018-03-13 5:11 pm
    • 2018-03-13 5:19 pm
      • 2018-03-13 7:41 pm
      • 2018-03-14 4:06 pm
        • 2018-03-14 6:06 pm
    • 2018-03-13 8:07 pm
  7. 2018-03-14 2:33 am
  8. 2018-03-16 12:49 am