On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 11:47 PM, Aaron J. Seigo <ase...@kde.org> wrote: > On June 4, 2010, Alessandro Diaferia wrote: >> At the very beginning we had the idea to put a plain VideoWidget behind the >> transparent-made containment (really, the Plasma::View) >> but IIRC this is not possible as long as there is a window registered as >> desktop in the WM. > > the PMC (plasma media center) window isn't a desktop window, so this isn't an > issue. PMC is a "stays on top", fullscreen window. the video just needs to be > stack beneath it without any other windows in between. (really, a job for the > window manager, but for now we'll have to manage that on our own ... it also > means that PMC will not work non-full screen very well since the geometry of > the windows would need to be sync'd.) this, btw, is exactly what LinuxMCE > does.
A problem with this approach is that with some crappy video drivers (for sure intel drivers at least until a certain point don't know the situation nowdays) the portion of a video rendered below an argb window is a nice solid blue rectangle, so won't be usabe at all. that said, for having something quickly demo-able i still think it's the better way (and just f... the bad video drivers) I would really love to have the video in canvas in the future, but really doesn't seem doable right now, besides small thumbnail previews :/ _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel