I do agree with this. From a design POV, its kind of pointless when edje does such a good job stretching images anyway.
Toma On 26 June 2010 11:02, Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri <barbi...@profusion.mobi> wrote: > Die, die, die lovely. I'm one that hate it and find mostly useless > other than demos or geek show offs. If you ask a GUI designer he will > probably come with a modified gradient and not a simple radial/linear > one with multiple steps and probably layers... At the end it turns to > be so slow that must be pre rendered and turns the API useless. > > What I'd support is the helper libs that raster suggested. It could > provide smart objects that handle gradients as images, circles, > elipse, bezier and other paths as polygons and even use > Cairo/Skia/AntiGrain as vector-to-image > > On Friday, June 25, 2010, Cedric BAIL <cedric.b...@free.fr> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Gradient in Evas and Edje needs a lot of attention and love. We >> currently have two implementations in Evas, gradient and gradient2. >> The later was intended to replace the former and should be easier to >> accelerate in hardware. But it never received enought attention, >> that's why Edje still use gradient. The only viable plan if we want to >> keep this API is if someone adapt Edje to use gradient2, so we could >> remove gradient and then rename gradient2 to gradient. But every one >> of us is currently busy and many user prefer to use GIMP to generate a >> gradient as a bitmap and just use that. >> So if no one can take care of it, I propose that after next >> snapshot, we remove all code that refer to gradient and gradient2 in >> Evas, Edje and E17 (This only concern the gradient background config >> dialog). >> >> Is someone ready to take care of gradient, or it's going to die ! >> -- >> Cedric BAIL >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate >> GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the >> lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: >> http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo >> _______________________________________________ >> enlightenment-devel mailing list >> enlightenment-de...@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel >> > > -- > Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri > http://profusion.mobi embedded systems > -------------------------------------- > MSN: barbi...@gmail.com > Skype: gsbarbieri > Mobile: +55 (19) 9225-2202 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint > What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? > Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first > _______________________________________________ > enlightenment-users mailing list > enlightenment-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first _______________________________________________ enlightenment-users mailing list enlightenment-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users
