No, options is not a good idea... I think the user must have a fast skin,
that's it... what makes it so slow is the fact that we have that many
options to check everytime we're drawing...
The most CPU consuming processes I think are :
1 - dealing with transparency.. so alpha blending in images should be
avoided when possible
2 - resizing of images.. which means the box image for a group... same with
the scrollbar and I think the topbar of the chat window.. those are the
images being resized depending on the geometry of the win... in our case,
the group box is the one causing an issue...
Maybe have a skin option (not a user option) that says 'use_box' or
something.. so if there is no box_* files, then amsn will not load the
images, and resize a 0x0 image to XxY, etc...
This should also fix the problem so many people have... they change the skin
and all skins have that box_* thing even if it's not supposed to, simply
because most of our skins are old and unmaintained and do not have the box_*
files, so the ones from default skin are taken... So having the 'use_box'
option set to false by default would be great!
KaKaRoTo
On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 3:35 AM, square87 <squar...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I don't know what is better. It depends from user... if he has many users
> or not, if he likes an eye candy skin or a light skin... so personally i
> don't know.
>
> But maybe a poll should be: do you want to put a skin wizard? do you want
> put in amsn both skins and then the user chooses? For you what should be the
> default skin?
>
> And... if you want a can try to put some options to customize the skin
> (show only boxes around group name 0/1 | show boxes around group 0/1
> etc...). Yes i know we already have so many opts :-\ but this is what i
> think
>
> with love :)
> *
> Square87*
>
> 2009/1/30 Youness Alaoui <kakar...@kakaroto.homelinux.net>
>
>> We should either update the skin, or change the skin...
>> I suggest a vote...
>> Changing the skin (to the minimal skin) :
>> pros :
>> Much faster aMSN!!!
>> Smaller binary size
>>
>> cons :
>> Not the same eye candy..
>> Users don't like stuff that change too much...
>>
>>
>> I don't vote yet as I don't know...
>> however, it might be interesting to see how aMSN performs
>> with the saphire skin WITHOUT the box_* pixmaps.. I think
>> the resizing of those pixmaps and the alpha blending is
>> causing all our CPU problems...
>> Also note that most users comments over the skin were that
>> they didn't like the boxes around the groups, so I would
>> suggest removing them from the next release...
>>
>> KaKaRoTo
>>
>> On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 12:31:09PM -0200, Gustavo A. Díaz wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > Once I've posted in the ML about including the new version of Sapphire
>> Skin
>> > if you want.... Is almost finished, and I finishing to design the hole
>> set
>> > of smiles that integrates better with the skin style (since the current
>> set
>> > of smiles are not mine...). Examples: http://amsn.lnxteam.org/?p=76
>> >
>> > You can see how the skin looks (main Window):
>> > http://amsn.lnxteam.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/amsn_sapphire25.png
>> > Anything else to check, you can download the SVN: *svn://
>> > svn.tuxfamily.org/svnroot/amsnskins/amsnskins/trunk/Sapphire/2.5/*
>> >
>> > Cheers.
>> >
>> >
>> > 2009/1/28 Vivia Nikolaidou <vi...@ee.auth.gr>
>> >
>> > >
>> > > DONE:
>> > > - N810: Bind menu button to show right click menu
>> > >
>> > > Not quite. Menu button called ::tk::FirstMenu which bugged so I
>> substituted
>> > > it with an empty proc, and made ctrl+click fire <<Button3>
>> > > events if we're on maemo.
>> > >
>> > > 0.98 TODO:
>> > > - Add missing pixmaps to minimal skin and make sure tab flickering
>> > > is visible
>> > > - Fix MSNP2P stuff that broke with WLM 2009
>> > > - Finish VoIP UI
>> > > - Small annoyance: when a CW gets opened because they nudge you, you
>> don't
>> > > see their DP
>> > > - Apply patch from PEACEYALL's thread
>> > > - Make ListChoose draw in a canvas
>> > > - Make webcam work for BSD systems
>> > >
>> > >
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