Gustavo wrote: >>>>> dropshadow is broken? >>>>> >>>> no, but it is lame :-P >>>> >>>> >> No way man! Dropshadow is neat. >> > > first time I saw it, before composite managers where born, I said > "cool", but nowadays it's very lame, even windows do proper shadows! > :-/ >
Last time I checked, composite was still somewhat unreliable. Argb visuals are ideal, but small devices so far tend to be limited. For those kinds of applications, Carsten's "bg-only" shadows are likely the best bet there. For more flexible systems there's a lot more one could do. Mind you, evas, edje, and friends should be better able to deal with these kinds of things, rather than the current wm-only stuff that's there. You want to be able to have such things (and others) as part of the rendering engine and api/declarative/scripted system. Given the current overall state of 'gfx', I'd say it's largely a waste of time to attempt rendering engines based on other than software-argb32 and gl-shaders. Xrender is largely good only for compositing, some others are just as limited, and the 16bpp engines are a dead-end for anything other than simple image blits and solid color fills. Apple captured a huge market largely because they dared to push the bleeding edge of gfx use in guis and made a system which could support that. Sexy "eye-candy", good gfx design, and "cinematic" like interfaces will capture interest and attention. And most of these things can be done efficiently even with moderate systems. But still, you have to push the systems.. not the other way around. ____________________________________________________________ Earn your associate's criminal justice degree and start your career training today. http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL2141/fc/BLSrjpTKKZrp3bzN9qs4im97c063mpEepL7kysvNPea5MQKXE0gYtgFrJXS/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensign option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
