On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 2:40 PM, Hisham Mardam Bey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 12:55 PM, Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 1:46 PM, Jose Gonzalez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> >>> Gustavo has a point here. This kind of thing can easily get out of hand >>> in complexity and obscurity.. for what kinds of uses, effects, ....? >>> I wonder if it might not be 'better' to have such (sync and/or async) >>> image loading done by a separate server which would fill or hand out image >>> data >>> via some ipc mechanism? Then the server can do quite few more things than >>> even >>> evas does now such as take full paths into account, monitor src file >>> changes, >>> give better file info, error reporting, progress reporting, etc. And it can >>> implement things via whatever means might be best, and possibly be useful to >>> many other apps/libs as well. >> >> This is out of Evas scope, at least this scope. You can implement such >> things for things that are usually shared among lots of apps (ie: >> Open/Save/Close icons), just have the main app to do that and share >> the memory (shmem or equivalent) and set the pointer of evas image >> data. > > Its not actually - only yesterday raster and I were talking about it > (sharing image and font cache across all apps and libs using Evas), > and this idea slots in nicely to fill that gap and to asynchronously > load data.
As I said, I like the idea, but I don't see this happening in Evas itself, as it barely knows about system, how could it do something as this? Ecore_Evas or more higher level (Evoak) is fine. -- Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri http://profusion.mobi embedded systems -------------------------------------- MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Skype: gsbarbieri Mobile: +55 (19) 9225-2202 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
