2008/11/24 Clemens Eisserer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> Out of interest - how widely are gradients used? How often will a >> typical desktop use gradients? > At least when looking at all the GTK themes, gradients are used a lot. > I don't know wether QT4 uses RENDER gradients, but theme designers > there too seem to make heavy use of gradients. > > Even Java's default theme uses gradients a lot: > http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/tools/nb_guibuilder/netbeans5_5.jpg > When looking sysprof profiles, I clearly see a lot of time is spent > for gradients - and at least on i915, almost all migration done is > caused by them.
Sorry just to clarify - can't Xorg draw a gradient directly to the pixmap over PCI, rather than migrating the pixmap out of the video card? John _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list xorg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
