Re: [Banshee-List] UI Bling

["Scott Peterson" <lunchtimemama gmail com>]

>  Like I originally mentioned about your rendering performance work, this
>  is not something that needs to be done at this time. The idea is good,
>  but the added complexity at this point in development for trunk is not
>  worth it.

I'm hoping that I can design this stuff to be sufficiently
self-contained that it won't complicate a) what's already there, and
b) the writing of what's to come. If I go ahead and prototype some of
this stuff (like the rendering) and it turns out to be the
wrong-time-wrong-place for the patch, I'm fine with sitting on it for
a while. However your words of warning are appreciated and I think I
will turn my attention to other areas of the code. The impetus for my
desire to work on this stuff was having gotten myself into a Gtk/Gdk
headspace from futzing around w/ the rendering. I'm in something of a
zone with that API and thought I'd exploit that fact. Regarding the
rendering patch, I would appreciate it if we could find time to work
through the problems with it: leaving it unaddressed will be a
psychological bugaboo for me :)

>  Also, the UserEvent stuff was ported a couple of months ago, but it was
>  really more like a rewrite. The service to use is UserJobManager. In
>  ThickClient there is a UserJobTile and a UserJobTileHost that handles
>  the GUI side of the jobs.

My idea was actually to create something like AnimatedVBox in
Hyena.Gui which is a general solution for animating (in the way I
described) anything that is put into or taken out of it. The
ThickClient would then consume that. Still just an idea, however.

- Scott