On March 26, 2010, Alessandro Diaferia wrote: > Lucas says putting the VideoWidget behind the Plasma Desktop is not the way > to go as he says this is like using a Window Manger to put a widget inside > a fake Window Manager (Plasma) and hence a loop. As he makes us notice > that the flag KeepBelow would put our widget below other widgets but not > below Plasma which is registered as Desktop. (Correct me if I'm wrong).
for plasma-desktop, that's correct. for plasma-mediacenter, if that was the issue in actual question, it's not. > QPixmap::grabWindow, instead, works pretty well and > fast. But this forces us to have a QWidget always visible that is not what > we want. perhaps using composite directly to grab the content from the widget? this would still require a mapped window i believe, but that doesn't mean its painting to screen and that should be able to be worked around? this would only work when there is compositing available, of course. > So, finally, keeping all this in mind i had a *rather nasty and probably > impossible idea*. But it still worths a try: what about using a similar > approach? We could use a plain Phonon::VideoWidget without embedding it > anywhere. We can put it on top of the applet and make it follow its > movements. possible, but then we get poor results when zooming or rotating. i don't think it's really worth it for the plasma-desktop and -netbook cases. ultimately, i think the real answer is this: > i was trying to find a way to extract VideoWidget frames and that probably requires work in Phonon. :/ -- Aaron J. Seigo humru othro a kohnu se GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1EA EE75 D6B7 2EB1 A7F1 DB43 KDE core developer sponsored by Qt Development Frameworks _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel
