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it with style: bringing more bling to GTK with OpenGL  Canonical
developer Mirco Müller (also known as MacSlow) demonstrates the
…  At FOSSCamp in October, skilled eye-candy expert Mirco Müller
(also known as MacSlow) hosted a session about using OpenGL in
GTK to bring richer user interfaces to desktop Linux
applications. Building on the technologies that he presented at
FOSSCamp, Müller recently published a blog entry that
demonstrates his latest impressive experiments with OpenGL, GTK,
and offscreen rendering.  Müller is currently developing the GDM
Face Browser, a new login manager for Ubuntu that will include
enhanced visual effects and smoothly animated transitions. To
implement the face browser, he will need to be able to
seamlessly combine OpenGL and conventional GTK widgets. Existing
canvas libraries like Pigment and Clutter are certainly robust
options for OpenGL development, but they do not offer support
for the kind of integration that