On 1/7/06, Attilio Fiandrotti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Denis Oliver Kropp wrote: > > Mike Emmel wrote: > > > >>> I've tried directfb-engine but it seems not to work even after some > >>> modifications i made to compile it against DFB 0.9.25 from cvs > >>> > >> > >> I'm not sure this works anymore with cairo. In anycase there should be > >> no need > >> for a directfb specific theme engine alpha windows are supported in > >> the gtk api now. > >> I think thats what this was for. > > > > > > Primarily, it was for speed. With the pixbuf engine you won't get > > hardware accelerated theming IIRC. Maybe they use pixmap caches now > > to speed it up. It also reduces the usual overhead when not going > > through Gdk(Pixbuf). > > > > For embedded devices a native DirectFB GTK theming engine should really > > be considered, but for the graphical installer it's not very important. > > Yesterday i tried again to make the directfb-engine work but i couldn't > get wigdets borders to be rendered (i suppose something has to be > modified inside surface_cache_value_new() ). > Luckily, the standard pixbuf engine works well with GTKDFB and, since > the g-i never need to theme window surfaces o borders, no slowdown in > noticed when theming buttons and other widgets only. > Is there any plan to update the directfb-engine and to make it work > again with current GTKDFB / DFB libraries? > I've got no plans short term. I think the next big thing soon will be looking at memory leaks.
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