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What type of windowing system does Mac OS X use? Is it a modified X window system? Or something totally different?
Wuffers
Posted 2010-10-10T00:50:46.313
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What kind of windowing system does Mac OS X use?
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OS X uses Quartz Compositor
along with the Aqua theme.
Josh K
Posted 2010-10-10T00:50:46.313
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Really? I thought that that was the name they gave the 'look and feel' of it. Is this not the case? – Wuffers – 2010-10-10T00:55:20.220
@Mr. Man: Aqua is the theme (or look and feel) while Quartz Composer is the windowing system. I initially just had Aqua, which was incorrect. – Josh K – 2010-10-10T02:57:08.247
'Compositor' :) – Casual Coder – 2010-10-10T04:21:35.063
Quartz Compositor is the name of the windowing system, actually; a bit picky, I s'pose, but Quartz Composer is technically something different. :) To further answer the question, the internal representation of windows is based on a PDF model. – mipadi – 2010-10-10T04:25:16.340
Yeah, my brain heard something different then what my eyes were telling me. What's really embarrassing is the article has a nice big notation saying "Not to be confused with Quartz Composer".
– Josh K – 2010-10-10T05:01:25.727