2008/1/28 Aaron J. Seigo <<a href="mailto:aseigo@kde.org">aseigo@kde.org</a>>:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">> > i think that for a shadow that looks ok a fast blurring function is<br>> > needed (and it's totally black magic for me :P) and then at least on<br><br></div>there's a blur implementation in workspace/libs/plasma/effects/<br>
<div class="Ih2E3d"><br>> In KDE3 there was a shadow around every letter which is a lot clearer than<br>> the normal shadow because it surrounds the letter everywhere and not just<br>> one or two sides.<br><br></div>
it was also slow like snails and rather overly configurable leading to a<br>really nasty API to use it.</blockquote><div><br>And the sad part is that out of 4 available algorithms, two were never implemented and simply called the third function so all the configurability was for nothing. My plan would be to simply offer the two that were actually implemented and decide which one based on the abilities of the machine. Is there some kind of performance metric that can be done on kde that can then be used to configure recommended application behaviour?<br>
</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br><div class="Ih2E3d"><br>> IMHO normal shadows are not enough compared to what the<br>
> background or sourrounding shadows achieve.<br><br></div>yep. i've already rejected patches for this in the past, in fact.</blockquote><div><br>Well fine then.<br><br>If the halo effect is implemented in a sane way would you accept that?<br>
<br>Chris<br> </div></div>