Re: live wallpaper

[Peter van Ieperen <p v ieperen globe-nl net>]

Hi All,

Just a note about GTK+ Transparency.
GTK Transparency is very nice, but in Gnome3 I think blur-effect on transparency should be implemented, otherwise text will be unreadable on transparent panels.


Peter


Op zondag 17-01-2010 om 19:44 uur [tijdzone +0100], schreef Joern Konopka:
>     
>     
>     2010/1/17 Shane Fagan <shanepatrickfagan ubuntu com>
> >         On Sun, 2010-01-17 at 18:18 +0000, Samuel Arthur Wright Illingworth
> >         wrote: 
> >         
> >         > 2010/1/17 Joern Konopka <cldx3000 googlemail com>
> >         >         Hi All, i hope i did everthing right considered this is my
> >         >         first Mailing List Answer EVER, but i just wanted to lose some
> >         >         words about the Live Wallpapers.
> >         >
> >         >
> >         >         Im not gonna delve into the discussion about Nautilus drawing
> >         >         the Icons since its quite a Topic for itself.
> >         >
> >         >
> >         >         I think implementing Live Wallpapers at this point of
> >         >         gnome-shell development is just too much to ask for honestly,
> >         >         it might look nice at first sight but we really should focus
> >         >         on more important stuff right now like f.e. getting an
> >         >         Extension System rolled out, have some Customization Options
> >         >         integrated into the Shell for switching the Black Look to
> >         >         something more personalized (some people love a pink or blue
> >         >         background, simple as that), make the new Notifier System
> >         >         really usable (in a PRODUCTIVE way), have good Zeitgeist
> >         >         Integration thats really giving User advantages while browsing
> >         >         Recent Files, have more Keyboard Actions for the Shell so
> >         >         people wont have to click on pretty much everything and so on
> >         >         and so on, i could point out a list of maybe 50 features and
> >         >         the Live Wallpapers would be way below that list.
> >         >
> >         >
> >         >         Im not saying it totally sucks, maybe some people will
> >         >         actually like it, but we should focus on giving everybody a
> >         >         good Working Experience for the Everday Tasks before we start
> >         >         thinking about Features that exist mainly for Eyecandy.
> >         >
> >         >
> >         >
> >         > I wish I didn't, but I agree with that.  Gnome-Shell (and Gnome 3 in
> >         > general) should be functional before it's pretty.
> >         >
> >         >
> >         > The problem with that, if Gnome 2 is anything to go by, is the
> >         > developer attention may never go to making it all look
> >         > sexy, especially not in terms of additional features rather than just
> >         > changing the colours.  For example, we still don't have global support
> >         > for transparency in GTK.
> >         >
> >         > --
> >         > Sam Illingworth
> >         > Sent from London, Eng, United Kingdom
> >         
> >         Canonical is bringing transparency in GTK for ubuntu lucid and they are
> >         pushing the code upstream so its coming.
> >         
> >         Shane
> >         
> >     
>     
>     A link concerning the Transparency in GTK for anybody whos wondering what it might look like or doesnt have a clue what were talking about:
>     
>     
>     http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2009/12/lucid-to-get-aero-style-rgba.html
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