On Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 10:02:19PM +0000, Mikhael Goikhman wrote:
> > We should continue to support direct gradient drawing
> > since they look a lot better this way (less blocky).
>
> Hmm, I didn't know they use 2 different methods.
I couldn't remember either until I debugged the problem Remko
reported yesterday.
> Maybe solid color blocks in colorset gradients should be placed
> depending on the gradient type?
They are not really placed
> Placing them in a rectangular grid is only good for {H,V,S}Gradient.
Not always. In a window title, B and D gradients would look
almost exactly like HGradient if the lines were always drawn at
45 degrees. In rectangles with a more even aspect ratio (menus
for example), the old way looks a bit better.
On Thu, Jul 11, 2002 at 08:18:18AM +0200, Olivier Chapuis wrote:
> > Olivier: I guess you added that XClearArea() call. Do you know
> > of any other places in the menu code where you added similar
> > calls? We should continue to support direct gradient drawing
> > since they look a lot better this way (less blocky).
> >
>
> I do not think that there is an other place in the menu code
> where I added such clearing. I was not award that B/DGradient
> is drawn on the foreground.
>
> But what about redrawing the relevant part of the gradient
> in this case: in the place of the XClearArea put (around
> line 404 of menuitems.c (+ do paint_menu_gradient_background
> global (menus.c + menus.h) and pass mr in some way to
> menuitem_paint).
[snip]
I now remember why we are drawing in the foreground. It's not
because of the looks but because a potentially huge pixmap has to
be kept in XServer memory. I'm unwilling to add a lot of
additional code just for the benefit of the old B/DGradient
implementation. Should we just document that a few features do
not work with the old gradient code?
Bye
Dominik ^_^ ^_^
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