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From: | Riccardo Mottola |
Subject: | Re: Our self-presentation, not just on our website. (Was: Re: GS based app release: djay by Algoriddim in Beta) |
Date: | Mon, 4 Sep 2023 21:17:08 +0200 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/91.0 SeaMonkey/2.53.17 |
Hi Albert,
Albert Palacios wrote: Hi, A precise ironic statement, matching a statement from Lars and directed to him. Proper quoting of the original line allows matching the context and noting the repetition of "IT-world" versus "fix the world". If you take it out context and refer it to the whole thread and issues you subsequently wrote, that's your take, but not my intention.
The author stated that it wants to resemble Mavericks. It is was given to you as a hint to a different look, more in a Mac style. No allegations were made that it would fit "your" style and was up-to-date to current Apple style. It was also written some years ago, maybe some things can be even improved.
For what I know, doing rounded corners and frozen glass effects (or even simple alpha channel) will be hard. With X11 you can have "any shape" windows, but for some other reason it is hard in GNUstep, I don't remember why. Transparency for sure requires a compositing window manager. I remember a demo running on GNUstep which had variable level of transparency, but can't find it anymore - I wanted to test some weeks ago if it still works since it came up as a topic. Frozen glass (which might include vibrancy effects) is a further issue. This is one of the reasons, by the way, why the GWorkspace dock is still part of the Desktop: that way it is GNUstep doing the compositing. Under certain setups (didn't dissect it further) and video-cards, windowmanager, this might put a heavy load if non-GNUstep windows cover the desktop! Cheers, Riccardo |
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