From kde-core-devel  Mon Jul 12 14:09:27 1999
From: Mosfet <mosfet () jorsm ! com>
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 14:09:27 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: Diagonal gradient support now in KPixmap
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=93178894218130

On Mon, 12 Jul 1999, Mario Weilguni wrote:
> 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.

I added the check and code to KPixmap now.

> 
> Ciao,
> 	Mario
> 
> --
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