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List: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: Diagonal gradient support now in KPixmap
From: Mosfet <mosfet () jorsm ! com>
Date: 1999-07-12 14:09:27
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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
>
> --
> No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
> -- Eleanor Roosevelt
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Daniel M. Duley - Unix developer & sys admin.
mosfet@kde.org
mosfet@jorsm.com
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