Review Request: Bug with Plasma::Delegate text painter

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On Wednesday 19 November 2008, Jesse L. Zamora wrote:
> On Wednesday 19 November 2008 11:17:28 Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> > On Wednesday 19 November 2008, Jesse Zamora wrote:
> > > EDIT: I am noticing that on the items with the gradient, it really
> > > starts to slow down. Any suggestions?
> >
> > arg. once again, reviewboard is not showing me your patch. sorry, can you
> > forward it on here? and what do you mean by "starts to slow down"
> > precisely?
>
> Well, on the items that have the gradient (i.e., the items that are too
> long and have a gradient to make them look better), the painting slows WAY
> WAY down.........I don't know how I could make it not be so slow! :-(

ah, painting text with a gradient ... yeah... not exactly fast. iirc when 
that's done then everything is converted to paths and then filled with the 
gradient in software ... iow.. not swiftly.

currently what we usually do is to paint the text into a pixmap of the correct 
size (option.rect in this case?) and then wash over it with a gradient to fade 
it out at the end using the appropriate CompositionMode ... then paint that 
pixmap in.

it should be faster... =)

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