Re: Transparent themes without composition

2009-05-02 Thread Zack Rusin
On Saturday 02 May 2009 19:32:28 David Nolden wrote: > Am Sonntag 03 Mai 2009 00:20:13 schrieb Martin Gräßlin: > > I very much doubt that any Linux distribution including KDE 4.3 will not > > provide at least XRender compositing with any hardware. If you own such a > > hardware you should report a

Re: Transparent themes without composition

2009-05-02 Thread Chani
FWIW, I don't have composite on (waiting for gallium drivers to save me) and I still regularly find myself thinking "damn, KDE really does look awesome these days". -- This message brought to you by eevil bananas and the number 3. www.chani3.com signature.asc Description: This is a digitally

Re: Transparent themes without composition

2009-05-02 Thread David Nolden
Am Sonntag 03 Mai 2009 00:20:13 schrieb Martin Gräßlin: > I very much doubt that any Linux distribution including KDE 4.3 will not > provide at least XRender compositing with *any* hardware. If you own such a > hardware you should report a bug report to X developers requesting support. Intel GMA 95

Re: Transparent themes without composition

2009-05-02 Thread Martin Gräßlin
On Sunday 03 May 2009 01:08:31 David Nolden wrote: > Am Samstag 02 Mai 2009 17:37:00 schrieb Marco Martin: > > > Composition is simply not an option. And for some users, it never will. > > > > if it never will, linux desktop has simply blatantly failed, because it > > means it reached the maximum i

Re: Transparent themes without composition

2009-05-02 Thread David Nolden
Am Samstag 02 Mai 2009 17:37:00 schrieb Marco Martin: > > Composition is simply not an option. And for some users, it never will. > > if it never will, linux desktop has simply blatantly failed, because it > means it reached the maximum it can do nd no further evolution is possible, > so in the nex

Re: Systray jobs

2009-05-02 Thread Sebastian Kügler
On Saturday 02 May 2009 18:17:56 Rob Scheepmaker wrote: > On Saturday 02 May 2009 17:48:13 Sebastian Kügler wrote: > > On Friday 01 May 2009 18:40:00 Rob Scheepmaker wrote: > > > These are the main issues I encountered. Please try the systray from > > > trunk some time and give your feedback on the

Plasmate development

2009-05-02 Thread Shantanu Tushar Jha
Hey, this is a mail to get/put an update on Plasmate. As I remember, we had distributed the work among 4 people including me, but unfortunately I forgot all of your nicks. So, please reply to this mail with them, and yes, I've started looking into the editor part, noticed a Text Editor is already i

Re: Systray jobs

2009-05-02 Thread Chani
> > > we're supposed to have some kind of logging facility, right? ideally I'd > > expect that notifications that stopped doing anything more than 5 minutes > > ago would get sent away somewhere so that I'd have to explicitly click > > some sort of "history" button or something to show them. I migh

Notifications Features

2009-05-02 Thread Celeste Lyn Paul
Some of you may or may not remember that I've also been working on interruptions and notifications; however as part of a uni project rather than for an open source project. Part of the project is for designing an empirical experiment to explore different features in notifications. I would like

Re: Review Request: FIXME part of quicklaunch

2009-05-02 Thread Sujith H
--- This is an automatically generated e-mail. To reply, visit: http://reviewboard.kde.org/r/649/ --- (Updated 2009-05-02 11:19:15.254137) Review request for Plasma and Aaron Seigo.

Re: Systray jobs

2009-05-02 Thread Rob Scheepmaker
On Saturday 02 May 2009 17:48:13 Sebastian Kügler wrote: > On Friday 01 May 2009 18:40:00 Rob Scheepmaker wrote: > > These are the main issues I encountered. Please try the systray from > > trunk some time and give your feedback on these issues or provide your > > own points. > > I've been seeing a

Re: Transparent themes without composition

2009-05-02 Thread Sebastian Kügler
On Friday 01 May 2009 19:06:09 David Nolden wrote: > When a theme designer makes a theme transparent, then he wants something to > show through the theme. Air actually does this. No fake translucency though. I concur with Aaron and Zack on the other points. Fix (or help fixing) the offending dri

Re: Systray jobs

2009-05-02 Thread Sebastian Kügler
On Friday 01 May 2009 18:40:00 Rob Scheepmaker wrote: > These are the main issues I encountered. Please try the systray from trunk > some time and give your feedback on these issues or provide your own > points. I've been seeing a logic issue for some time, I'll use this poke to finally tell you

Re: Transparent themes without composition

2009-05-02 Thread Marco Martin
On Saturday 02 May 2009, David Nolden wrote: > >On Friday 01 May 2009, David Nolden wrote: > >> This already looks quite nice. But since many plasma themes have a > >> glassy look, they highly profit from something more shining through > >> them, since that's the only way they can retain that look.

Re: Systray jobs

2009-05-02 Thread Marco Martin
On Friday 01 May 2009, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > On Friday 01 May 2009, Rob Scheepmaker wrote: > > * Auto hiding after the dialog with jobs and notifications get's > > automatically shown because one get's added. Currently this is hardcoded > > to 6 seconds, but there are quite some requests for havi

Re: Systray jobs

2009-05-02 Thread Marco Martin
On Saturday 02 May 2009, Rob Scheepmaker wrote: > On Friday 01 May 2009 20:39:43 Marco Martin wrote: > > On Friday 01 May 2009, Rob Scheepmaker wrote: > > > * Auto hiding after the dialog with jobs and notifications get's > > > automatically shown because one get's added. Currently this is > > > ha

Re: Systray jobs

2009-05-02 Thread Rob Scheepmaker
On Friday 01 May 2009 21:53:04 Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > On Friday 01 May 2009, Rob Scheepmaker wrote: > > * Auto hiding after the dialog with jobs and notifications get's > > automatically shown because one get's added. Currently this is hardcoded > > to 6 seconds, but there are quite some requests

Re: Systray jobs

2009-05-02 Thread Rob Scheepmaker
On Friday 01 May 2009 20:39:43 Marco Martin wrote: > On Friday 01 May 2009, Rob Scheepmaker wrote: > > * Auto hiding after the dialog with jobs and notifications get's > > automatically shown because one get's added. Currently this is hardcoded > > to 6 seconds, but there are quite some requests fo

Re: Systray jobs

2009-05-02 Thread Rob Scheepmaker
On Friday 01 May 2009 20:37:48 Chani wrote: > hrrm. you say some prefer no-autohide, then suggest a way to configure the > autohide *time*. can we just offer an autohide checkbox and hardcode the > time to something reasonable? (6 seconds seems ok so far) Probably better yes. > > * I don't like h