On Thu, 15 Jan 2009 00:56:28 -0500 Joel Newkirk <freerun...@newkirk.us> babbled:
> On Thu, 15 Jan 2009 16:35:22 +1100, Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) > <ras...@rasterman.com> wrote: > > On Thu, 15 Jan 2009 00:28:18 -0500 Joel Newkirk <freerun...@newkirk.us> > > babbled: > > > >> all distros I've tested. (2008.x, FSO, SHR) > >> > >> Selecting the Illume (or Illume-SHR, or my in-development 'Serenity' > > based > >> off Illume) theme instead of ASU causes finger scrolling to be almost > >> unbearably slow. WHY? > > > > its just much more complex ui/layout. drawing a single black rectangle is > > faster than scaling and blending 5 layers of images to get an effect. > > I'd wondered about that, and in Serenity want to reduce it to just a > rectangle - personally I don't like the look of the extra layers. (granted > I've still got a ways to go before I've finished the theme, and many > remnants of the Illume theme still remain) Bit by bit I've broken out > portions of the Illume edc and #include them (keyboard, config, shelf, etc) > which has made a huge difference in my ability to figure things out. > > Once I'm fairly happy with Serenity I have an ever-growing blog article on > the process that I'll post for anyone interested. (as with my other > OM-related posts it will be released for cut'n'paste to wiki if someone > wishes) My overall goal for the look of my FR is lightweight and dark > (similar to ASU theme) with digital clock, Illume battery, keyboard and > config, etc, plus 128x128 Oxygen icons. (I plan to opkg the icons soon, > probably this weekend - given the scale I prefer I'd like to use the > 256x256 but they're just too damn much to display and scroll well) > > >> > >> Also, a bug: I usually have icon size set to 'very large' for the > >> launcher, (which makes this problem far more apparent) and have noticed > >> that if I try to finger-scroll too close to the bottom and hit an icon > >> whose icon image is not fully on-screen, it will ALWAYS select and > > launch > >> instead of scroll. If the image is fully on-screen but the icon text is > >> off-screen, it will scroll, as it will 'grabbing' any icon that is fully > >> visible. This is becoming a significant frustration for me as I > > constantly > >> launch unwanted programs with my thumb trying to scroll. > > > > this is a leftover of the flaunch (the 3 boxes at the bottom of om's asu > > setup > > that i just have as invisible in the illume theme), so events go thru > > without > > going thru the finger-scroll object that is over the region above this. > > (and > > this object basically modified events so they get special flags so other > > objects can hold off on launching stuff as they know the event is to be > > ignored > > and just used for information - not actions). > > > > i need to totally fix up illume and split it up - it is still basically > > the > > design that om wanted with almost no changes. > > > :\ What is this identified as in the edc, do you recall? flaunch ... :) > Also, while I've got you 'on the line' as it were, where is the power > control themed? (IE when I press power button, the menu that appears with > suspend, lock, etc) So far I've been unable to locate it... :( in e's core theme - syscon :) > And finally, what would it take to display each icon in the launcher as an > icon with text to the right, one per line? not sure if I'd be happy with > it or not, but wanted to try and haven't figured it out yet. code changes to use the list view for the fm, not icon view. > Many thanks. (for E, Illume, etc as well as the swift response) > > j > > -- > Joel Newkirk > http://jthinks.com (blog) > http://newkirk.us/om (FR stuff) > -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) ras...@rasterman.com _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community