I just’ve found Jon Smirl’s article about state of Linux graphics [pl translation].
I’m not graphics expert. KDE 4 is the very first development of GUI I’m tracking carefully. I have great hopes and I think that we can create something really awesome, but I must admit that all work and ideas that are flying around this projects are about how to push to maximum the abilities of current X.org server with some small improvements like Exa.
But in case KDE team is working such huge improvement it should be a good point to improve also X.org server and use the new features – 3D features I mean.
Otherwise, after KDE4 release, we will have to wait for KDE 5 (year 2009?) to get a full 3D system which will use the modern (today’s!) 3d acceleration architecture.
We’ll, it seems that wounds after XFree86 project will costs us a lot of time 🙁 Maybe this discussion will give us a chance to speed up in this segment?