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Uli Schlachter wrote:
> Julien Danjou wrote:
>> At 1243673434 time_t, Uli Schlachter wrote:
>>> Looking at the current image lua API, I kinda doubt that it's worth to use
>>> this
>>> for generating a 1bit pixmap. Plus, if a window is resized you pretty much
>>> have
>>> to set a new pixmap. Everything else would look ugly or make the resize
>>> pointless.
>> We could adapt image API for such a case.
>
> I just looked into this again. It looks like I can't to a 1-bit depth pixmap
> with cairo which means cairo is a no-go here, so I would have to transfer the
> shape to the X server via xcb_poly_point() which sucks. E.g. for a 15x1050
> wibox
> this would mean drawing 15.750 points. If I wanted a fullscreen wibox
> (1680x1050) with some fancy shape (a debian swirl shaped wibox? Dunno...) I
> would need 1.764.000 xcb_point_ts. I didn't do any benchmarks on this, but I
> kinda doubt that this would have nice results...
*headdesk*
I just found xcb_put_image() which sounds way more appropriate for this. I still
think that drawing directly to a pixmap would be 'better', but at least there is
an usable alternative...
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