I do agree with this. From a design POV, its kind of pointless when
edje does such a good job stretching images anyway.

Toma



On 26 June 2010 11:02, Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri <barbi...@profusion.mobi> wrote:
> Die, die, die lovely. I'm one that hate it and find mostly useless
> other than demos or geek show offs. If you ask a GUI designer he will
> probably come with a modified gradient and not a simple radial/linear
> one with multiple steps and probably layers... At the end it turns to
> be so slow that must be pre rendered and turns the API useless.
>
> What I'd support is the helper libs that raster suggested. It could
> provide smart objects that handle gradients as images, circles,
> elipse, bezier and other paths as polygons and even use
> Cairo/Skia/AntiGrain as vector-to-image
>
> On Friday, June 25, 2010, Cedric BAIL <cedric.b...@free.fr> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>>    Gradient in Evas and Edje needs a lot of attention and love. We
>> currently have two implementations in Evas, gradient and gradient2.
>> The later was intended to replace the former and should be easier to
>> accelerate in hardware. But it never received enought attention,
>> that's why Edje still use gradient. The only viable plan if we want to
>> keep this API is if someone adapt Edje to use gradient2, so we could
>> remove gradient and then rename gradient2 to gradient. But every one
>> of us is currently busy and many user prefer to use GIMP to generate a
>> gradient as a bitmap and just use that.
>>    So if no one can take care of it, I propose that after next
>> snapshot, we remove all code that refer to gradient and gradient2 in
>> Evas, Edje and E17 (This only concern the gradient background config
>> dialog).
>>
>> Is someone ready to take care of gradient, or it's going to die !
>> --
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