On Thu, 11 Oct 2001 18:52:32 +0200 Lars Munch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> babbled profusely:
> On Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 09:26:56AM -0700, Tim Roberts wrote: > > On Thu, 11 Oct 2001 15:30:27 +0200, Lars Munch wrote: > > > > > >I have been playing with the "hello world" example from > > >http://www.eax.com/render/HelloX-full.c (which btw dont > > >render correctly under XFree86-4.1.0) and translucent > > >windows really seams to be a cool feature to add to your > > >favorite app. I then searched the net to find apps that > > >actually takes advantage of this cool feature, but my > > >search came up empty?!? Why is no one using this feature? > > >Is it broken? is it to slow? > > > > It's brand new. The "render" extension, which enables transparent windows > and > > anti-aliased text, has been available less than a year. Give it time. > > Compared to how fast anti-aliased text was integrated in a lot > of stuff just made me wonder. I was kind of expecting guys like > The Rasterman to use translucent stuff right away. there are no transulcent windows in Xrender - only compositing. i played with an Xrender back end for evas.. i have it partially done. its no faster than using software and the cpu... well the software i use is imlib2 and its optimized to the hilt... so the preliminary tests are not showing any real benefit from using Xrender. it doesnt scale images either (right now) whihc makes it even more useless - id's still have to pre-scale the data before it goes in.. and considering the compositing even when hardware assisted - is that of software.. and i now need to pre-scale using the cpu... i'm not going to get much benefit.. so i don't have a good reason to use it right now. :) > > Further, the extension has to be explicitly supported by the graphics > driver, > > and not all drivers support it yet. > > I had a feeling this was the problem. Are there no software > fallback? yes there is. :) but the software fallback requires the framebuffer driver to talk fb not cfb - as the old drivers did. > > Even so, it's a gee-whiz feature that probably WON'T be of interest to most > > apps. StarOffice, for example, would not benefit from transparent windows. > > I would for one like to see translucent dropdown menus in StarOffice :-). > > Regards > -- Lars Munch > _______________________________________________ > Render mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/render -- --------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------------- The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unemployed Bum [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mobile Phone: +61 (0)413 451 899 Home Phone: 02 9386 9362 _______________________________________________ Render mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/render
