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List:       freedesktop-xorg
Subject:    Re: [IDEA] shrink xrender featureset
From:       "John Tapsell" <johnflux () gmail ! com>
Date:       2008-11-24 10:37:05
Message-ID: 43d8ce650811240237t7fe92c6eye8fdcb1a23f2d6b6 () mail ! gmail ! com
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2008/11/24 Clemens Eisserer <linuxhippy@gmail.com>:
>> Out of interest - how widely are gradients used?  How often will a
>> typical desktop use gradients?
> At least when looking at all the GTK themes, gradients are used a lot.
> I don't know wether QT4 uses RENDER gradients, but theme designers
> there too seem to make heavy use of gradients.
>
> Even Java's default theme uses gradients a lot:
> http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/tools/nb_guibuilder/netbeans5_5.jpg
> When looking sysprof profiles, I clearly see a lot of time is spent
> for gradients - and at least on i915, almost all migration done is
> caused by them.

Sorry just to clarify - can't Xorg draw a gradient directly to the
pixmap over PCI, rather than migrating the pixmap out of the video
card?


John
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