Hi, One note on the subject. This change may not be necessary, at least on the short term (near future).
I've been doing some related work in a fork @ wtkx.org. I just like Pivot that much. In this effort I found two areas with large performance improvements: text layout and graphics buffering -- since pivot 1.0 a couple weeks ago, before Greg rewrote Text. For the graphics buffering I can recommend an approach as in this class.. http://code.google.com/p/wtkx/source/browse/trunk/src/wtkx/in/BackingStore.java ..although as of this minute there is a bug there.. http://code.google.com/p/wtkx/issues/detail?id=5 ..i expect it's plainly usable. Best wishes, John On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 6:38 AM, Sandro Martini <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi to all, > what do you think on adding a Global Setting (independent on the > current skin used) to enable a profile related to the usage of effects > in skins ? I've found a thing like this in GNome Control Panel, for > example in ubuntu, take a look: > > http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/16536/ > > https://wiki.edubuntu.org/DesktopTeam/Specs/HardyDesktopEffectsProfiles > > I don't find a screenshot of this feature at the moment, sorry. > > > In this way, we could have for example 4 or 5 effect-levels: "None", > "Low", "Normal", "High" and maybe "Custom". > As usual, the default level will the that of today, so All effects enabled. > > In this way we could force the usage (or better, the non-usage) of > some effects like transitions, animations etc where not wanted, and > not depending on the skin chosen. Because in some Corporate > Environments or with older PCs sometimes this is not wanted or simply > to not slow down running applications. > And so the application creator could (is wanted) ask to Pivot to set > the desired effects level, if possible at runtime. > But also a User could have this feature, for example available by the > application creator in a Menu, or other ... > > > What do you think ? > > Bye, > Sandro >
