On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 07:57:13AM +0800, Carsten Haitzler wrote: > the day the design mockups for the ui i see stop having alpha > transparency is the day i make this unimportant. until that day, > your "i don't care about this" is the kind of opinion that i also am > not interested in, because i am being shown ui designs hat REQUIRE > it in the long run between windows, and in the short term is being > faked with software within windows. i am just trying to make > something possible that is being requested, and has been for a long > time. not just say "i don't care".
The problem isn't that transparency effects, and other CPU/GPU intensitve UI enhancements, are unimportant. On a handheld device they *are* important. They make the device worse. It is important to resist the push to add eye-candy to a handheld device, because every CPU/GPU cycle spent animating an icon, or making a window translucent, eats some of the energy stored in your battery, and reduces the amount of useful work which can be done between recharges. Ken Young _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
