At Sun, 11 Jul 1999 Mosfet wrote:
> I've added diagonal gradients to KPixmap, thus the following method is obselete:
> 
(...)
> I have updated kcmdisplay so it uses the new enums, but have not added the
> diagonal one. I'm not too familiar with the kbgndwm stuff, so the maintainer
> may want to look at it. Kwm uses it's own titlebar gradient code... probably
> should change that also. Is there a reason it's not using KPixmap's? 
(...)

Yes. Shortly before releasing 1.0, we had serious trouble with horizontal
gradients in kwm, which caused delays up to 5 seconds on slow machines when
switching windows. The main problem was the very slow dithering code in
KPixmap´s gradientfill. Because we could not fix KPixmap that time, I
implemented a special mode for kwm. If you can replace it without to much
performance penalty, fine.

Ciao,
	Mario

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