[Dailydave] XGL is great

[Dave Aitel]

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A modern Linux is more secure, more pretty, and more usable than
Windows XP SP2. Thsi is only to be expected, since modern Linux means
"Released last week" and XP SP2 is showing signs of age, which is why
we have Vista now.

Built into Fedora Core 6, Ubuntu, and SuSE (and every other distro,
with minor work), is a new graphics layer called XGL (or AIGLX), which
allows for a much prettier user interface. For example, menus can
appear in a blaze of fire, along with lots of other trivial effects.

However, one effect that is extremely useful is that windows darken
when they are not responding to Window event requests. I.E. you know
immediately that your application is not responding as it should when
it darkens. So when CANVAS is using 256 Python threads, I know it's
not happy about it. This is extremely useful  for both programmers and
normal users.

- -dave
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