On Wed, 15 Feb 2006 12:06:05 -0500 Ed Presutti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> babbled:
> I was doing some reading last night on the E17 transparency situation. > > I really need my Ecore/Evas/Edje based application to do transparency to > the desktop, not just the "alpha > 128" rule that it does now. > > After reading the following post and going back to "The Road to > Enlightenment", I understand why E17 transparency is implemented the way > that it is, and it makes total sense. > > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=enlightenment-devel&m=106819713529027&w=2 > > After some more research, this post was uncovered. It is a post on the > Xorg mailing lists that discusses the Shape extension as well as > composite and such. (Apparently raster cheats on us and uses the Xorg > mailing lists too!) > > http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2005-October/010881.html > > My question is this, what is the current state of transparency in EFL? > There is talk of in the Xorg list about Xcomposite + Xrender and stuff > like that. Is this a viable option or do I have to resort to image > grabbing and manual blending via ImLib2? (Like Esmart does) you get shaped windows ie on/off threashhold @ 128 alpha. thats it. xcomposite and xrender are infinitely too immature to do anythgin else beyond experimental toys. frankly - it's not going to happen any time soon. xrender is so woefully implemented on almost EVERY machnie i have (and on 1 its good only because i installed a cvs checkout of x.org) that i'm not bothering. it brings machnes to a CRAWL. i have better things to do ththan rebuild my xserver every day and hack it. on my i8xx, radeon xpress, and nvidia boxes xrender is so slow it's unusable (the benchmarks *I* run have it anywhere from 1/120th to 1/200th the speed of evas software rendering - i am not going to get into why. on only my dell laptop with a radeon 9000 (r250) xrender is managing to pull 3 times the speed of software_x11). it's not USABLE and there is NO SUPPORT because its NOT USABLE. it's not usable for me, i have better things to do. if you want support you are going to have to do it yourself - or wait until finally nvidia drivers implement a usable xrender acceleration scheme, as well as the i8xx drivers and R300+ drivers (newer ati cards). > Thanks, > Ed Presutti (ekrunch on freenode) > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files > for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes > searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=103432&bid=230486&dat=121642 > _______________________________________________ > enlightenment-devel mailing list > enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel > -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) [EMAIL PROTECTED] 裸好多 Tokyo, Japan (東京 日本) ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=103432&bid=230486&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
