I'm not an active developer for this project, but I am a programmer
and was wondering whether it might be possible to add what I call
the "sliding layers" function to directfb.

Sliding layers is the effect that you get on the Amiga workbench
(and on Enlightenment's emulation of same) where the layers are
prioritized front-to-back and you can use the mouse to slide the
front layer down to reveal portions of the layer(s) behind it.  You can also
use a key combination to flip through the layers.

I know that the amiga supported that kind of function in hardware
and I'm not sure that any other graphic chip does.  But it would be
great to at least virtualize it in directfb.  That way you could slide
your main desktop down and see whats going on in an OpenGL
layer behind it etc etc.

Maybe this functionality already exists.  In any case I think it would
be very cool.

Any comments? (probably the typical "If you think its so great, why
don't you implement it ;-)"

Thanks,

Jim Burnes





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