On 7/14/07, luc marschall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Le vendredi 13 juillet 2007 à 15:35 -0400, Timothy Normand Miller a
écrit :
> I'm rethinking the presentation again.  With help from Ben Schoeder,
> I've got an approach that I think will keep people interested.  The
> focus is first on what to say, and then only have slides for the
> things that require visual aids.
>
> So, the first thing I'd like is some kind of flashy desktop wallpaper
> to use in lieu of a title slide.  I'll be using KDE with the big bar
> at the bottom, and most projectors are 1024x768 (although it could be
> 1280x1024, so it would be good to have options).
By having an option, you mean to have two wallpapers?
Though, I wonder if Impress can manage slides of different size res.
For your needs, a screen capture with the kde's bar seems necessary to
make this slide.

Impress will scale the images just fine (I'm pretty sure).  But I want
my "title slide" to be the desktop.  In other words, I won't start out
in Impress but rather start out with a KDE desktop and switch to
Impress once I've introduced myself.

I think KDE scan scale the wallpaper image, but I just want to make
sure that it looks as good as it can by going with the native res.

>
> What I'm imaging is a big OGP or perhaps the OGP window logo at the
> top with some kind of warp effect like it zoomed from the distance to
> the screen.  Below that, in appropriately-sized letters, "Open
> Graphics Project", and visible but not overly emphasized, my name
> "Timothy Miller" like in the lower right.  Be sure that that fits
> above the KDE bar at the bottom.
I can try something, but I don't use KDE, though I can found a
screenshot on the web.
However, I fear that it would be a big payload for OGD1

KDE defaults to an image on the root window, and it works just fine.
You only notice any slowness when scrolling or moving windows.  Other
repaints don't seem so slow.

Technically, the main problem is with framebuffer reads.  They're much
slower than writes (over PCI).  If x.org were to keep a shadow image
of the screen in host RAM and do only writes over PCI, it would
actually feel quite a bit more zippy.  Another thing is that in order
to keep reads and writes coherent, the PCI controller must be sure
that writes are flushed before servicing reads.  When switching back
and forth (like when doing a bitblt on the screen), the impact is
quite noticable.

--
Timothy Normand Miller
http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/~millerti
Open Graphics Project
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