I'll jump into this thread now, but cut out all the verbiage, just want
to make a simple point.  Wanderer is correct about how hard the
composite settings are to use.  I've been an e17 and EFL developer for
many years, and I have no clue what almost all of the stuff in that
settings dialog does.  Shadows and maybe smooth scaling is about all the
average user will make sense of, the rest is entirely meaningless, even
to experienced developers like me.

It's easy for raster to say "just try them", but there's six panes with
22 controls, not counting the first panes sub pane.  That sub pane has
five panes itself, each with a list, and all but one with five
buttons.  I wont go into all the panes with controls when you hit one
of the edit/add buttons.  That's one scary big lot of options (tens of
millions of combinations, not counting sliders, the sub pane, and the
edit options), 99% of which are completely meaningless to your average
user. 98% are completely meaningless to your average E17 developer.
Most people will open that up, say WTF, then close it and think it's
all too hard.  Exactly what Wanderer did, and he seems to be a more
advanced user.

No one can even tell which particular small number of things they
should "just try".  Nothing about that settings dialog is easy, except
to raster.  Well, OK, "Shadows" is easy, the rest is scary complicated.

-- 
A big old stinking pile of genius that no one wants
coz there are too many silver coated monkeys in the world.

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