On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 8:22 AM, Neil Graham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Saturday 17 May 2008 5:26:06 pm John R.Hogerhuis wrote: >> One possible idea: rather than popping up the frame when near the edge, pop >> up a translucent overlay in key places that looks just like the keyboard >> frame key. If the user clicks on it, then bring up the whole frame. > > A concern for me is the redraw required as the frame retracts. On > particularly heavy load windows the redraw can take some time. If the repaint > on frame retract could be avoided(by overlay or even a clever save-under > scheme) then that would be a benefit.
We can have composition on the XO, see the experimental 'faster' builds, they have a version of Matchbox with its simple composition manager activated. That avoids window redraws and the UI seems much more faster as a result. There are some issues to fix before we can consider using it, though. Regards, Tomeu _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel