Fwd: kdebase/kate/app
Jens Herden
jens at kdewebdev.org
Fri Apr 22 12:39:59 CEST 2005
> that's just plain wrong, any redraw can kill the user experience, as for
> example redrawing a textwidget like kate's view is REALLY expensive, as
> drawing text is perhaps one of the most expensive things you can do, and
> I won't base kate again on a system leading to such mass redraws, even
> if the dimensions stay. I can agree that in non-overlapping mode the
> resizing don't lead to best results, and really, I don't mind putting in a
> overlap mode in my katemdi (I would like to see it in kmdi 4.x, too), but
> only if that is doable in a sane way, kdockwidgets show, that doing it
> somehow because you can, isn't the right way to go
Let me see if I got this right.
Having non-overlapping mode would mean one redraw when you open the toolview
and a second when you close it again.
Having overlapping mode would mean only one redraw when the tollview gets
closed. Right?
Jens
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