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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: KDM logout animation
From:       Oswald Buddenhagen <ossi () kde ! org>
Date:       2004-06-01 1:34:41
Message-ID: 20040601013441.GC27141 () ugly ! local
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On Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 01:46:47AM +0200, Gerold J. Wucherpfennig wrote:
> (I couldn't find out who's the current maintainer of KDM)
> 
yeah, because it's so exceedingly hard to accomplish. ;-)
anyway, you're looking for ksmserver, not kdm.

on the subject itself, let me quote a previous mail exchange with Benoit
Walter <b.walter@free.fr> (who changed the effect "recently") ...

On Sat, Feb 28, 2004 at 04:00:10PM +0100, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
> hi,
>
> sorry to tell ya, but this new effect is _creepingly slow_ here. the
> stipple effect was accelerated on any halfways useful hardware at
> least.

On Sat, Feb 28, 2004 at 05:56:40PM +0100, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 28, 2004 at 05:43:41PM +0100, Benoit Walter wrote:
> > I have just checked it on a remote session and it is actually slow
> > :-(
>
> > But at least it should not block the UI (which was the case with the
> > old effect).
> >
> the effect should be orthogonal to the code using it, no?
>
> > I know there is a curtain effect but it does not look that ugly,
> > does
> > it?
> >
> it's annoying. it does not really block the ui, but it "blocks" the
> user.
>
> > The stipple effect is very bad for LCD displays (at least for a few
> > laptops),
> >
> yeah ... on some crts it causes moire patterns.
>
> > I don't know if it would be feasible to check at run-time if the
> > performance will be good enough, otherwise I will try a new
> > solution.
>
> > Do you have another idea?
> >
> config option. buahahaha.
>
> try experimenting with other effects, maybe. dunno.

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