Re: Centralization of graphical awesomeness

2009-11-04 Thread Ole Kliemann
On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 08:45:08PM +0300, Paul Fertser wrote: Marcel tan...@googlemail.com writes: - graphics in general are far too light, most colors become whiteish - colored stripes horizontally over the whole display, but are invisible on screenshots (naturally) - the same as above,

Re: Centralization of graphical awesomeness

2009-11-04 Thread Sebastian Krzyszkowiak
On 11/4/09, Ole Kliemann ole-om-community-2...@mail.plastictree.net wrote: On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 08:45:08PM +0300, Paul Fertser wrote: Marcel tan...@googlemail.com writes: - graphics in general are far too light, most colors become whiteish - colored stripes horizontally over the whole

Re: Centralization of graphical awesomeness

2009-11-04 Thread Ole Kliemann
On Wed, Nov 04, 2009 at 03:41:47PM +0100, Sebastian Krzyszkowiak wrote: On 11/4/09, Ole Kliemann ole-om-community-2...@mail.plastictree.net wrote: On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 08:45:08PM +0300, Paul Fertser wrote: Marcel tan...@googlemail.com writes: - graphics in general are far too light,

Re: Centralization of graphical awesomeness

2009-11-04 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
On Wed, Nov 04, 2009 at 05:16:08PM +, Ole Kliemann wrote: If you're using Xglamo, then it's known and it's already fixed in Xorg. I see. Well... how do I get Xorg then? ;-) I am using the latest SHR-unstable image with latest updates from the feeds. I cannot find Xorg in the unstable

Re: Centralization of graphical awesomeness

2009-11-02 Thread Helge Hafting
Evgeniy Karyakin wrote: 2009/10/26 Carsten Haitzler ras...@rasterman.com: you want speed? you will need to give up something. if you still want it to look nice, then drop pixels. its the simplest and easiest solution. its the right resolution for that cpu anyway. the glamo will still hurt you,

Re: Centralization of graphical awesomeness

2009-11-02 Thread The Rasterman
On Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:26:24 +0100 Helge Hafting helge.haft...@hist.no said: Evgeniy Karyakin wrote: 2009/10/26 Carsten Haitzler ras...@rasterman.com: you want speed? you will need to give up something. if you still want it to look nice, then drop pixels. its the simplest and easiest

Re: Insisting on metaphors that exploit the device's weaknesses (Re: Centralization of graphical awesomeness)

2009-10-31 Thread Matthias Huber
Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) schrieb: On Fri, 30 Oct 2009 19:47:27 +0100 Matthias Huber matthias.hu...@wollishausen.de said: Laszlo KREKACS schrieb: To not confuse with window changing, I would suggest the following scenario: 1. double click for launching an app why double click

Re: Insisting on metaphors that exploit the device's weaknesses (Re: Centralization of graphical awesomeness)

2009-10-31 Thread Matthias Huber
Laszlo KREKACS schrieb: On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 9:21 AM, Matthias Huber matthias.hu...@wollishausen.de wrote: that's exact what i told you, what openbox has: they say: if movement number_pixels then its click, if movement = pixels, its slide. in your case, one could hava a hysteresis over

Re: Insisting on metaphors that exploit the device's weaknesses (Re: Centralization of graphical awesomeness)

2009-10-31 Thread Laszlo KREKACS
On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 9:21 AM, Matthias Huber matthias.hu...@wollishausen.de wrote: that's exact what i told you, what openbox has: they say: if movement number_pixels then its click, if movement = pixels, its slide. in your case, one could hava a hysteresis over the time: if a single

Re: Insisting on metaphors that exploit the device's weaknesses (Re: Centralization of graphical awesomeness)

2009-10-31 Thread Michal Brzozowski
2009/10/31 Carsten Haitzler ras...@rasterman.com you pressed just once - or you think you did. but you actually had a press, a release, and a press , release etc. again because your pressure went above, below and above the pressure level needed to register a click. What's the pressure

Re: Insisting on metaphors that exploit the device's weaknesses (Re: Centralization of graphical awesomeness)

2009-10-31 Thread The Rasterman
On Sat, 31 Oct 2009 09:34:17 +0100 Laszlo KREKACS laszlo.krekacs.l...@gmail.com said: On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 9:21 AM, Matthias Huber matthias.hu...@wollishausen.de wrote: that's exact what i told you, what openbox has: they say: if movement number_pixels then its click, if movement =

Re: Insisting on metaphors that exploit the device's weaknesses (Re: Centralization of graphical awesomeness)

2009-10-31 Thread The Rasterman
On Sat, 31 Oct 2009 09:21:13 +0100 Matthias Huber matthias.hu...@wollishausen.de said: Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) schrieb: On Fri, 30 Oct 2009 19:47:27 +0100 Matthias Huber matthias.hu...@wollishausen.de said: Laszlo KREKACS schrieb: To not confuse with window

Re: Insisting on metaphors that exploit the device's weaknesses (Re: Centralization of graphical awesomeness)

2009-10-31 Thread The Rasterman
On Sat, 31 Oct 2009 11:38:59 +0100 Michal Brzozowski ruso...@poczta.fm said: 2009/10/31 Carsten Haitzler ras...@rasterman.com you pressed just once - or you think you did. but you actually had a press, a release, and a press , release etc. again because your pressure went above, below

Re: Centralization of graphical awesomeness

2009-10-30 Thread Michael 'Mickey' Lauer
Am Mittwoch, den 28.10.2009, 09:36 -0400 schrieb Ken Young: Personally, I wish OM had stayed with the UI they had in 2007.1. That's right, 2007.1 - the first version, which had no kinetic scrolling. There was never any chance that OM would produce a phone with graphics as smooth and fancy as

Re: Centralization of graphical awesomeness

2009-10-30 Thread Robin Paulson
2009/10/29 Ken Young r...@cfa.harvard.edu: 2) The Freerunner has one, and ONLY ONE, feature which is somewhat better than what is found on a typical smart phone.   The VGA display. no. you're right, the fr has one feature better than any other smartphone, but it's not the screen. it's not any

Re: Centralization of graphical awesomeness

2009-10-30 Thread Matthias Huber
Michael 'Mickey' Lauer schrieb: , since I did not realize the awesomeness and importance of dbus early enough... it's not too late though for us (as in the community) to fix this. when i understand you right, you think, the dbus concept is wrong ? and if so, could you please explain

Re: Centralization of graphical awesomeness

2009-10-30 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Fri, 2009-10-30 at 16:18 +0100, Matthias Huber wrote: Michael 'Mickey' Lauer schrieb: , since I did not realize the awesomeness and importance of dbus early enough... it's not too late though for us (as in the community) to fix this. when i understand you right, you think, the dbus

Re: Centralization of graphical awesomeness

2009-10-30 Thread rixed
You have a very valid points here. We certainly did some strategic mistakes here -- me included, since I did not realize the awesomeness and importance of dbus early enough... How lucky you are ! I still wonder why dbus was invented in the first place :-)

Re: Insisting on metaphors that exploit the device's weaknesses (Re: Centralization of graphical awesomeness)

2009-10-30 Thread Laszlo KREKACS
To not confuse with window changing, I would suggest the following scenario: 1. double click for launching an app why double click ? for me, i am using double click for a menu and a single click for starting the app. Because when sliding, you can have accidental clicks. I know it from the

Re: Centralization of graphical awesomeness

2009-10-30 Thread Michael 'Mickey' Lauer
Am Freitag, den 30.10.2009, 16:36 +0100 schrieb ri...@happyleptic.org: You have a very valid points here. We certainly did some strategic mistakes here -- me included, since I did not realize the awesomeness and importance of dbus early enough... How lucky you are ! I still wonder why

Re: Insisting on metaphors that exploit the device's weaknesses (Re: Centralization of graphical awesomeness)

2009-10-30 Thread Matthias Huber
Laszlo KREKACS schrieb: To not confuse with window changing, I would suggest the following scenario: 1. double click for launching an app why double click ? for me, i am using double click for a menu and a single click for starting the app. Because when sliding, you can have accidental

Re: Insisting on metaphors that exploit the device's weaknesses (Re: Centralization of graphical awesomeness)

2009-10-30 Thread The Rasterman
On Fri, 30 Oct 2009 19:47:27 +0100 Matthias Huber matthias.hu...@wollishausen.de said: Laszlo KREKACS schrieb: To not confuse with window changing, I would suggest the following scenario: 1. double click for launching an app why double click ? for me, i am using double click for a

Re: Insisting on metaphors that exploit the device's weaknesses (Re: Centralization of graphical awesomeness)

2009-10-29 Thread Petr Vanek
On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 20:42:16 +1100 Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) ras...@rasterman.com (CH(R) wrote: On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 11:27:03 +0200 Michael 'Mickey' Lauer mic...@vanille-media.de said: The problem is : on the freerunner we merely need something to display some simple widgets, scroll the

Re: Insisting on metaphors that exploit the device's weaknesses (Re: Centralization of graphical awesomeness)

2009-10-29 Thread Petr Vanek
lots of alpha blending - if you have the 16bit engine you get no scale cache (thats 32bit engine only). but worst.. is the font style. check carefully. text has a soft dropshadow. that is drawn by 1. drawing the shadow first and that draw 25 copies of the text with very faint alpha. THEN draw

Re: Insisting on metaphors that exploit the device's weaknesses (Re: Centralization of graphical awesomeness)

2009-10-29 Thread Bernd Prünster
Petr Vanek wrote: lots of alpha blending - if you have the 16bit engine you get no scale cache (thats 32bit engine only). but worst.. is the font style. check carefully. text has a soft dropshadow. that is drawn by 1. drawing the shadow first and that draw 25 copies of the text with very

Re: Insisting on metaphors that exploit the device's weaknesses (Re: Centralization of graphical awesomeness)

2009-10-29 Thread The Rasterman
On Thu, 29 Oct 2009 11:37:06 +0100 Petr Vanek van...@penguin.cz said: @Bernd Prünster: you are already very good with this, it would be good to see the difference, if not used already... mind to try the above in gry* ? gry* doesnt use dropshadow, it was one of the forst thigs i kicked

Re: Insisting on metaphors that exploit the device's weaknesses (Re: Centralization of graphical awesomeness)

2009-10-29 Thread The Rasterman
On Thu, 29 Oct 2009 11:12:29 +0100 Bernd Prünster bernd.pruens...@gmail.com said: Petr Vanek wrote: lots of alpha blending - if you have the 16bit engine you get no scale cache (thats 32bit engine only). but worst.. is the font style. check carefully. text has a soft dropshadow. that is

Re: Insisting on metaphors that exploit the device's weaknesses (Re: Centralization of graphical awesomeness)

2009-10-29 Thread Petr Vanek
CH(R btw can you already change the background image in Illume settings? i CH(R still get the Enlightenment was unable to import the image due to CH(R conversion errors ? CH(R CH(R u are probably missing edje_cc from the distro thanks, this was it. i have already reported it distro

Re: Insisting on metaphors that exploit the device's weaknesses (Re: Centralization of graphical awesomeness)

2009-10-29 Thread Bernd Prünster
Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote: gry* doesnt use dropshadow, it was one of the forst thigs i kicked out, gry* uses a white outline on black text. but thats something thats bugging me. i have to make some tests... even that can be slow. in this case, the text will be drawn 5

Re: Insisting on metaphors that exploit the device's weaknesses (Re: Centralization of graphical awesomeness)

2009-10-29 Thread Neil Jerram
2009/10/28 Michael 'Mickey' Lauer mic...@vanille-media.de: Why do all of you insist on using scrolling as the only metaphor to present excerpts of large content? Given the physical size of the display and the hardware constraints (touchscreen jitter, for a start... not going to comment on the

Re: Insisting on metaphors that exploit the device's weaknesses (Re: Centralization of graphical awesomeness)

2009-10-29 Thread Laszlo KREKACS
On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 4:46 PM, Neil Jerram neiljer...@googlemail.com wrote: I think it would be more usable (instead of having to scroll) to have multiple pages of icons, which you switch between using the same and as for switching between apps.  (i.e. each icon page acts like another app)

Re: Centralization of graphical awesomeness

2009-10-29 Thread GNUtoo
On Wed, 2009-10-28 at 12:51 +0100, DJDAS wrote: otherwise I would by an HTC with Android if I only wanted a Linux-phone carefull...everything is non-standard Denis. ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org

Re: Insisting on metaphors that exploit the device's weaknesses (Re: Centralization of graphical awesomeness)

2009-10-29 Thread Warren Baird
On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 5:44 AM, ri...@happyleptic.org wrote: Reading an ebook or looking a webpage or a map is better with scrolling I guess. I've been using my FR with ePdfView to read books quite a bit lately, and I always read a full screen of text and then click on the scrollbar to

Re: Insisting on metaphors that exploit the device's weaknesses (Re: Centralization of graphical awesomeness)

2009-10-29 Thread Matthias Huber
Laszlo KREKACS schrieb: On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 4:46 PM, Neil Jerram neiljer...@googlemail.com wrote: I think it would be more usable (instead of having to scroll) to have multiple pages of icons, which you switch between using the same and as for switching between apps. (i.e. each

Re: Insisting on metaphors that exploit the device's weaknesses (Re: Centralization of graphical awesomeness)

2009-10-29 Thread The Rasterman
On Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:38:46 +0100 Bernd Prünster bernd.pruens...@gmail.com said: Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote: gry* doesnt use dropshadow, it was one of the forst thigs i kicked out, gry* uses a white outline on black text. but thats something thats bugging me. i have to make

Re: Centralization of graphical awesomeness

2009-10-28 Thread rixed
-[ Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 04:42:21PM +1100, Carsten Haitzler ] but.. if i were smart.. i'd not develop apps for the freerunner. it's a dead product. It might be dead, but as there is no other free phone I have no choice but to use this one. I can live without fancy graphics anyway (although I

Re: Centralization of graphical awesomeness

2009-10-28 Thread DJDAS
ri...@happyleptic.org wrote: The problem is : on the freerunner we merely need something to display some simple widgets, scroll the screen smoothly (because on a small display you always need to scroll) and be reactive to user finger pressures. If E, because of an ambitious design, is unable

Re: Centralization of graphical awesomeness [ot]

2009-10-28 Thread DJDAS
Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote: with linux i'm not lumping in uclinux, elks, etc. as they do come under different names :) notice.. i included desktop... and at least i'd hope to imply that would be the desktop he speaks of... ie how great compiz is and so much better than e17. :)

Re: Centralization of graphical awesomeness

2009-10-28 Thread Petr Vanek
As an important but overlooked side effect, the more capable the graphics toolkit is and the more bloated and unfriendly the resulting end user interface will be. While we were at replacing the original gnome mobile desktop, I would have liked to start from a minimalist but inovative toolkit more

Re: Centralization of graphical awesomeness

2009-10-28 Thread DJDAS
Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote: well.. you're telling the one that wrote the graphics code, that has read the glamo hw docs, has worked on it long before freerunner was on sale, who has written graphics code for many platforms, manye cpus of many varying levesl of speed (from 7mhz 68k

Insisting on metaphors that exploit the device's weaknesses (Re: Centralization of graphical awesomeness)

2009-10-28 Thread Michael 'Mickey' Lauer
The problem is : on the freerunner we merely need something to display some simple widgets, scroll the screen smoothly (because on a small display you always need to scroll) Why do all of you insist on using scrolling as the only metaphor to present excerpts of large content? Given the physical

Re: Centralization of graphical awesomeness

2009-10-28 Thread Xavier Cremaschi
DJDAS a écrit : ri...@happyleptic.org wrote: The problem is : on the freerunner we merely need something to display some simple widgets, scroll the screen smoothly (because on a small display you always need to scroll) and be reactive to user finger pressures. If E, because of an ambitious

Re: Centralization of graphical awesomeness

2009-10-28 Thread The Rasterman
On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 10:09:36 +0100 Petr Vanek van...@penguin.cz said: As an important but overlooked side effect, the more capable the graphics toolkit is and the more bloated and unfriendly the resulting end user interface will be. While we were at replacing the original gnome mobile

Re: Insisting on metaphors that exploit the device's weaknesses (Re: Centralization of graphical awesomeness)

2009-10-28 Thread The Rasterman
On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 11:27:03 +0200 Michael 'Mickey' Lauer mic...@vanille-media.de said: The problem is : on the freerunner we merely need something to display some simple widgets, scroll the screen smoothly (because on a small display you always need to scroll) Why do all of you insist on

Re: Insisting on metaphors that exploit the device's weaknesses (Re: Centralization of graphical awesomeness)

2009-10-28 Thread Laszlo KREKACS
On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 10:27 AM, Michael 'Mickey' Lauer mic...@vanille-media.de wrote: The problem is : on the freerunner we merely need something to display some simple widgets, scroll the screen smoothly (because on a small display you always need to scroll) Why do all of you insist on using

Re: Insisting on metaphors that exploit the device's weaknesses (Re: Centralization of graphical awesomeness)

2009-10-28 Thread rixed
-[ Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 11:27:03AM +0200, Michael 'Mickey' Lauer ] [scrolling] There are other metaphors available that would fit the device's strengths much better. What about paging? Reading an ebook or looking a webpage or a map is better with scrolling I guess. Apart from that, you

Re: Centralization of graphical awesomeness

2009-10-28 Thread DJDAS
Xavier Cremaschi wrote: DJDAS a écrit : ri...@happyleptic.org wrote: The problem is : on the freerunner we merely need something to display some simple widgets, scroll the screen smoothly (because on a small display you always need to scroll) and be reactive to user finger

Re: Centralization of graphical awesomeness

2009-10-28 Thread Xavier Cremaschi
DJDAS a écrit : Sorry but which part of from the user's point of view doing complicated calculations that result in a slower display is useless is not clear? I don't care E optimizations and beautiful algorithms if I simply CANNOT USE THEM or use them at the price of speediness and

Re: Centralization of graphical awesomeness

2009-10-28 Thread DJDAS
Xavier Cremaschi wrote: No. From the user point of view, a recipe : - take SHR or Om2009 - put a simple theme instead of the default one - notice it's very fast Where is the part with the user who cannot use this or that ? That as Raster correctly said, default is something that

Re: Centralization of graphical awesomeness

2009-10-28 Thread Davide Scaini
This discussion is _very very_ interesting! And for sure we'll have progress... quote: if you have something concrete to offer rather than being rude, insulting and simply rubbishing things you know little about, then contribute. I will ;) please give me and my staff a couple of months... OK,

Re: Centralization of graphical awesomeness

2009-10-28 Thread The Rasterman
On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 11:15:46 +0100 Davide Scaini dsca...@gmail.com said: This discussion is _very very_ interesting! And for sure we'll have progress... quote: if you have something concrete to offer rather than being rude, insulting and simply rubbishing things you know little about,

Re: Centralization of graphical awesomeness

2009-10-28 Thread Cedric BAIL
On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 11:00 AM, DJDAS dj...@djdas.net wrote: Xavier Cremaschi wrote: DJDAS a écrit : ri...@happyleptic.org wrote: The problem is : on the freerunner we merely need something to display some simple widgets, scroll the screen smoothly (because on a small display you always

Re: Centralization of graphical awesomeness

2009-10-28 Thread DJDAS
Cedric BAIL wrote: Man, what didn't you understand in: YOU SHOULD WRITE A THEME THAT DON'T USE THAT MUCH FANCY STUFF ? ? The EFL are fast and optimised, but you should adapt the theme to what you ask. So write a theme that look like QtMoko and I bet you will have at least the same speed (My

Re: Centralization of graphical awesomeness

2009-10-28 Thread rixed
-[ Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 11:38:22AM +0100, DJDAS ] Yes I'm rude because my approach is to solve the problems not shutting up people saying you have a shi++y hardware so don't complain and this alters my patience (...) and I'll look for everything doable to make this device (and if ever

Re: Centralization of graphical awesomeness

2009-10-28 Thread Cedric BAIL
On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 11:38 AM, DJDAS dj...@djdas.net wrote: Cedric BAIL wrote: Man, what didn't you understand in: YOU SHOULD WRITE A THEME THAT DON'T USE THAT MUCH FANCY STUFF ? ? The EFL are fast and optimised, but you should adapt the theme to what you ask. So write a theme that look

Re: Centralization of graphical awesomeness

2009-10-28 Thread DJDAS
Cedric BAIL wrote: So either you have something like QtMoko without fancy stuff, and it will be faster, or you have some fancy effect, but slower fps. That's it. You can cry, you can yell, it will not be possible to do something more than that. Yes, it is frustrating, but the world is like

Re: Centralization of graphical awesomeness

2009-10-28 Thread Davide Scaini
DJDAS i share some thoughts with you ideed... but: this is a community, why don't you share your work? Sincerely, I'm interested in what works as an end user and as you already said. I'm not involved in this competition, and i just want to get out the most from this discussion to have a working

Re: Centralization of graphical awesomeness

2009-10-28 Thread DJDAS
Davide Scaini wrote: DJDAS i share some thoughts with you ideed... but: this is a community, why don't you share your work? Simply because ATM our work (it's not ONLY mine but we are a team of about 10 people) it's not more than a simple prototype, we are hardly working but obviously in our

Re: Centralization of graphical awesomeness

2009-10-28 Thread Marcel
Finally came round to want to try this... :) Am Dienstag, den 27.10.2009, 02:21 +0300 schrieb Paul Fertser: Marcel tan...@googlemail.com writes: I tried to got to qvga for graphics performance testing about a week ago. This is needed (tested on SHR's 2.6.29-rc3): echo qvga-normal

Re: Centralization of graphical awesomeness

2009-10-28 Thread Davide Scaini
ha ha ok, i'll wait. But please, share ;-) ciao d On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 12:51 PM, DJDAS dj...@djdas.net wrote: Davide Scaini wrote: DJDAS i share some thoughts with you ideed... but: this is a community, why don't you share your work? Simply because ATM our work (it's not ONLY mine but

Re: Insisting on metaphors that exploit the device's weaknesses (Re: Centralization of graphical awesomeness)

2009-10-28 Thread pike
Hi [scrolling] There are other metaphors available that would fit the device's strengths much better. What about paging? +1 for paging. mind you, I dont need a button for paging, a gesture could do it. which makes it feel very much like scrolling again, but then more solid. $2c, *-pike

Re: Centralization of graphical awesomeness

2009-10-28 Thread Ken Young
DJDAS dj...@djdas.net wrote: [...] I am sure people trying the smoothness and responsiveness of Illume at 240x320 would never complain of a lower resolution! Furthermore I don't understand why a lower resolution (and in this I agree with you people are strange ;) ) would become in an

Re: Centralization of graphical awesomeness

2009-10-28 Thread Iain B. Findleton
Ken Young wrote: DJDAS dj...@djdas.net wrote: [...] I am sure people trying the smoothness and responsiveness of Illume at 240x320 would never complain of a lower resolution! Furthermore I don't understand why a lower resolution (and in this I agree with you people are strange ;) )

Re: Centralization of graphical awesomeness

2009-10-28 Thread Bernd Prünster
DJDAS wrote: Xavier Cremaschi wrote: No. From the user point of view, a recipe : - take SHR or Om2009 - put a simple theme instead of the default one - notice it's very fast Where is the part with the user who cannot use this or that ? That as Raster correctly said,

Re: Centralization of graphical awesomeness

2009-10-28 Thread Sebastian Krzyszkowiak
On 10/28/09, DJDAS dj...@djdas.net wrote: And until some months ago there wasn't a simple theme for Illume (and please don't tell me creating Illume's themes is as easy as Qt or GTK...) But I will. Creating Illume themes and even redesigning it completely is easier than for Qt or GTK+. I tried

Re: Centralization of graphical awesomeness

2009-10-28 Thread Paul Fertser
Marcel tan...@googlemail.com writes: - graphics in general are far too light, most colors become whiteish - colored stripes horizontally over the whole display, but are invisible on screenshots (naturally) - the same as above, but photographed:

Re: Centralization of graphical awesomeness

2009-10-28 Thread Christopher Friedt
Wow, I'm surprised nobody in this thread has been throwing Hitler insults around yet [1]. Changing the default resolution on the FR to QVGA is a good idea if it means a more responsive UI. Assuming that bpp and fps parameters stay the same, that would mean 1/4 of the current glamo-bus traffic.

Re: Centralization of graphical awesomeness

2009-10-28 Thread DJDAS
Sebastian Krzyszkowiak wrote: But I will. Creating Illume themes and even redesigning it completely is easier than for Qt or GTK+. I tried it (i'm author of Niebiee theme), so I know :P Really, you're annoying. Sorry other people, I don't agree with Raster and SHR maintainers simply

Re: Centralization of graphical awesomeness

2009-10-28 Thread Bernd Prünster
DJDAS wrote: Cedric BAIL wrote: So either you have something like QtMoko without fancy stuff, and it will be faster, or you have some fancy effect, but slower fps. That's it. You can cry, you can yell, it will not be possible to do something more than that. Yes, it is frustrating, but the

Re: Centralization of graphical awesomeness

2009-10-28 Thread DJDAS
Bernd Prünster ha scritto: DJDAS wrote: FDOM uses illume, the launcher is efl, the settings app is efl... strange world we live in... Yes I know, thank you :) but since then I noticed new versions were slower than the one I have, so maybe FDOM guys or that libraries version was more

Re: Centralization of graphical awesomeness

2009-10-28 Thread Sebastian Krzyszkowiak
On 10/28/09, DJDAS dj...@djdas.net wrote: Sebastian Krzyszkowiak wrote: But I will. Creating Illume themes and even redesigning it completely is easier than for Qt or GTK+. I tried it (i'm author of Niebiee theme), so I know :P Really, you're annoying. Sorry other people, I don't agree

Re: Centralization of graphical awesomeness

2009-10-28 Thread Al Johnson
On Wednesday 28 October 2009, DJDAS wrote: Bernd Prünster ha scritto: DJDAS wrote: FDOM uses illume, the launcher is efl, the settings app is efl... strange world we live in... Yes I know, thank you :) but since then I noticed new versions were slower than the one I have, so maybe

Re: Centralization of graphical awesomeness

2009-10-28 Thread Gennady Kupava
On p. 1. Why not to make some 'viewport' instead of moving objects? This way, it is possible to render whole background, then whole moved 'contents', and finally scrolling we'll have only one blit operation per redraw. To take care of animation, it's possible to store list of 'animated' areas,

Re: Centralization of graphical awesomeness

2009-10-28 Thread Bernd Prünster
Al Johnson wrote: On Wednesday 28 October 2009, DJDAS wrote: Bernd Prünster ha scritto: DJDAS wrote: FDOM uses illume, the launcher is efl, the settings app is efl... strange world we live in... Yes I know, thank you :) but since then I noticed new versions were slower than

Re: Centralization of graphical awesomeness

2009-10-28 Thread Marcel
This thread is getting kinda strange... But funneh if one doesn't take people too serious who think they are :D Am Mittwoch, den 28.10.2009, 23:07 +0100 schrieb Bernd Prünster: Al Johnson wrote: On Wednesday 28 October 2009, DJDAS wrote: Bernd Prünster ha scritto: DJDAS

Re: Centralization of graphical awesomeness

2009-10-28 Thread William Kenworthy
The problem is that playing movies is only one of the FR uses (one I have never done by the way - I suspect its actually a minor use for most people) - I love the FR's high res screen that can make legible quite small text and details. So, I would be quite unhappy to have QVGA as the default

Re: Centralization of graphical awesomeness

2009-10-28 Thread The Rasterman
On Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:19:26 +0300 Gennady Kupava g...@bsdmn.com said: On p. 1. Why not to make some 'viewport' instead of moving objects? This way, it is possible to render whole background, then whole moved 'contents', and finally scrolling we'll have only one blit operation per redraw.

Re: Centralization of graphical awesomeness

2009-10-27 Thread DJDAS
Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote: Also, I installed Qtv14 (thanks to Radek for that distribution), and that I see? I is fast enought, scrolls fast, react fast, and so on. So, scrolling is different in qt. it is a simple blit. in efl it's a redraw. efl is very much like GL. you

Re: Centralization of graphical awesomeness

2009-10-27 Thread The Rasterman
On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 10:01:58 +0100 DJDAS dj...@djdas.net said: AHAHAHAHAH.Guy, please go home I followed this thread and read too much bul***it but now it's very very interesting your position! So E it's a very optimized-full_of_fancy-magical-biggest window manager BUT all of his

Re: Centralization of graphical awesomeness

2009-10-27 Thread Xavier Cremaschi
DJDAS a écrit : It never NEVER worked in an acceptable manner in EVERY my desktop system since 4 years (with nVidia graphics cards, not GLAMO or Freerunner), Compiz+XFCE are light-years way faster and optimized than that E's bunch of uncommented and always-in.beta (and not standards

Re: Centralization of graphical awesomeness

2009-10-27 Thread Atilla Filiz
Thanks Xavier, for stopping what was going to be a flamefest. On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 10:23 AM, Xavier Cremaschi omega.xav...@gmail.comwrote: DJDAS a écrit : It never NEVER worked in an acceptable manner in EVERY my desktop system since 4 years (with nVidia graphics cards, not GLAMO or

Re: Centralization of graphical awesomeness

2009-10-27 Thread DJDAS
Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote: you show and immense amount of knowledge here, both of the hardware, of software and graphics in general. i'm amazed. i shall take your advice as you obviously are someone of massive experience. i see that people reporting that its faster and better on a

Re: Centralization of graphical awesomeness

2009-10-27 Thread Davide Scaini
I think this post should be very helpful in optimizing our distros (SHR first - 'cause i seems to be the most used). Thanks for the helpful hints, but maybe now we should move in producing something that works for all, something as a click and enjoy approach. Thanks (hope that some shr-dev are

Re: Centralization of graphical awesomeness

2009-10-27 Thread Michal Brzozowski
Regarding the whole discussion. I would rather have a glamo chip that's 10x slower and be able to receive phone calls and text messages. Seriously, the whole software stack all the way from the bootloader to the GUIs (ok not all of them) is in alpha stage. Why bitch about slow hardware?

Re: Centralization of graphical awesomeness

2009-10-27 Thread EdorFaus
Bah, I write too slowly. Started when this mail arrived, didn't read the other responses yet... This seems to be, in part, an issue of talking about different things... (see below) On Tuesday 27 October 2009 10:01:58 DJDAS wrote: Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote: scrolling is

Re: Centralization of graphical awesomeness

2009-10-27 Thread DJDAS
Xavier Cremaschi wrote: I beg to differ, your personal experience is not mine (E17 being damn fast comparing to xfce). E17 is fuck**g fast on limited hardware. World is beautiful because it's various ;) I think you miss the point : - qtmoko/qtopia is pretty because of good skin and good

Re: Centralization of graphical awesomeness

2009-10-27 Thread EdorFaus
On Tuesday 27 October 2009 11:47:22 DJDAS wrote: Xavier Cremaschi wrote: A fast FR means a simple GUI and QtMoko is simple and pretty... I would say it's well balanced indeed, it fits well the FR. But E17 displaying same simple gui controls would be faster, no doubt. This doesn't mean E17

Re: Centralization of graphical awesomeness

2009-10-27 Thread Christophe M
Hi guys ! I don't want to feed the troll but lets compare what's comparable ... You compare Qt framebuffer with E over Xorg ... In one case you have a Xorg who is running in the other it's directly accessed ... To compare, let's take ( for example :) ) Qalee it run a Qt over Xorg with

Re: Centralization of graphical awesomeness

2009-10-27 Thread The Rasterman
On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 11:11:04 +0100 DJDAS dj...@djdas.net said: Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote: you show and immense amount of knowledge here, both of the hardware, of software and graphics in general. i'm amazed. i shall take your advice as you obviously are someone of massive

Re: Centralization of graphical awesomeness

2009-10-27 Thread Marc Andre Tanner
On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 04:42:21PM +1100, Carsten Haitzler wrote: On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 06:31:26 +0100 ri...@happyleptic.org said: -[ Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 11:52:04AM +1100, Carsten Haitzler ] E is nice thing, but it look like highly unoptimized. i beg to differ. it's more

Re: Centralization of graphical awesomeness

2009-10-27 Thread David Garabana Barro
On Tuesday 27 October 2009 12:46:01 Marc Andre Tanner wrote: but.. if i were smart.. i'd not develop apps for the freerunner. it's a dead product. it has no more being produced. it has no evolution path. there won't be a gtao3, 04, 05 etc. everyone quit or was fired/let go from om that

Re: Centralization of graphical awesomeness

2009-10-27 Thread Laszlo KREKACS
On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 6:42 AM, Carsten Haitzler ras...@rasterman.com wrote: I would only rise couple of points here: Scrolling is not optimized at the maximum. Look at ipod or nintendo DS, they do *discrete* scrolling and it is amazingly fast. They dont do kinetics, or pixel perfect scrolling

Re: Centralization of graphical awesomeness

2009-10-27 Thread Al Johnson
On Tuesday 27 October 2009, DJDAS wrote: Xavier Cremaschi wrote: - qt in qtmoko is very simple (for example no transparency, no fancy controls...) I prefer to not have transparency if this would result in more than 10fps in GUI responsiveness (not calculated but perceived which is what

Re: Centralization of graphical awesomeness

2009-10-27 Thread Laszlo KREKACS
On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 10:01 AM, DJDAS dj...@djdas.net wrote: AHAHAHAHAH.Guy, please go home I followed this thread and read too much bul***it but now it's very very interesting your position! So E it's a very optimized-full_of_fancy-magical-biggest window manager BUT all of his

Re: Centralization of graphical awesomeness

2009-10-27 Thread Gennady Kupava
I am sorry, but my letter is not about trolling and blaming but about optimization, qt and e, speed is interesting for me, not blaming. Calm down guys! I've numbered separate points overwise my letter will look endless :) 1. First, bit about qt scrolling - It's not so simple Carlsen want it to

Re: Centralization of graphical awesomeness

2009-10-27 Thread DJDAS
Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote: well as i said. it works fine and fluidly on many other devices. Even Windows Vista works fine and fluidly on 3000$ desktops this doesn't mean it's optimized ;) but.. if i were smart.. i'd not develop apps for the freerunner. it's a dead product. it has

Re: Centralization of graphical awesomeness

2009-10-27 Thread DJDAS
Laszlo KREKACS ha scritto: Lets count the elementary apps here. How many of them written for the Freerunner? Sad true: almost all usable elementary app are written for the Freerunner. I think in a year or so we will grow out the Freerunner. But until then there is a lot of small

Re: Centralization of graphical awesomeness

2009-10-27 Thread DJDAS
Christophe M wrote: Hi guys ! I don't want to feed the troll but lets compare what's comparable ... You compare Qt framebuffer with E over Xorg ... In one case you have a Xorg who is running in the other it's directly accessed ... Not true, because if Raster was right the only problem would

Re: Centralization of graphical awesomeness

2009-10-27 Thread Bernd Prünster
Al Johnson wrote: On Tuesday 27 October 2009, DJDAS wrote: Xavier Cremaschi wrote: - qt in qtmoko is very simple (for example no transparency, no fancy controls...) I prefer to not have transparency if this would result in more than 10fps in GUI responsiveness (not

Re: Centralization of graphical awesomeness

2009-10-27 Thread The Rasterman
On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:11:08 +0300 Gennady Kupava g...@bsdmn.com said: I am sorry, but my letter is not about trolling and blaming but about optimization, qt and e, speed is interesting for me, not blaming. Calm down guys! I've numbered separate points overwise my letter will look endless :)

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