On March 18, 2009 14:18:04 Jud Craft wrote: > Dumb thought question: Why not draw the tooltips animated on the > canvas when in a non-composited mode? > > I can see one problem: you won't be able to see tooltips when the > canvas window is obscured.
um, you seem to have a misunderstanding about what a canvas is. :) you should probably go read up on model-view, QGraphicsScene and QGraphicsView. here's a good place to start: http://doc.trolltech.com/4.5/graphicsview.html then we'll actually be able to speak the same language. ;) > > Yes, a horrible hack. I really don't expect you to do that, > especially since it may be that in the next year or two KDE could > actually run with composite-by-default in Linux systems. But just a > thought yes, it would be a horrible hack, and no, we're not going to do it :) > > PS. Is it impossible to draw a transparent (by color-key, I guess) > window in X? If so, there might could just be a tooltip canvas that > sits on top of everything. I admit these are very desperate and > probably impractical ideas. Plasma may not even like the idea of > having more than one big screen canvas at a time. I don't know enough about X, but I have a feeling it'd be impractical. I do something vaguely kinda-similar for the screensaver, and there are drawing glitches, and iirc the performance wasn't great either. it is a tempting idea, though... probably a bad one, but tempting nonetheless ;) -- This message brought to you by eevil bananas and the number 3. www.chani3.com
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