On Fri, 19 Aug 2005 14:31:25 +0300 Hisham Mardam Bey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> babbled:
> On 8/16/05, Mike Russo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is it possible for a terminal application to render to E17's background > > canvas, just like the modules do, in order to provide a simulation of > > the fake transparency we've all come to know and love (or at least > > immortalize in screenshots)? If so, are there any plans for Eterm (for > > Example) to support this? Or am I completely off-base? > > > > You need one of two things: > > 1) The terminal being a module > 2) Using something like Evoak on the E17 desktop. > > Since I think (2) isnt going to happen anytime soon, I'll tell you a > bit about (1). The terminal needs to be an evas smart object or a > complete module that renders everything on the desktop. Currently, > Enterminus can do that (its a smart object so you can stick it in a > module and it works) but its terminal emulation code still needs a > good amount of work. indeed. enterminus isn't far off being a vaguely usable terminal - it needs support for bg colors and a lot of fixes for escape hanlding and such in the terminal emulator engine, but if worked on it could become a smart object that coudl be used in a module with assurange it will work well. it needs performance work a lot too - its something like 10+ times slower than xterm/eterm's terminal emuklator without even using evas to render (i disabled rendering and evas stuff to see). i knwo what we need on the evas side to speed things up - but right now don't have time. > -- > Hisham Mardam Bey > MSc (Computer Science) > http://hisham.cc/ > +9613609386 > Codito Ergo Sum (I Code Therefore I Am) > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO > September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices > Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA > Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf > _______________________________________________ > enlightenment-users mailing list > enlightenment-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users > -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) [EMAIL PROTECTED] 裸好多 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tokyo, Japan (東京 日本) ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _______________________________________________ enlightenment-users mailing list enlightenment-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users
