[Sugar-devel] [Dextrose] [PATCH v5 sugar] Pulsing icon delayed by 5 seconds or so SL#2080

Gary Martin garycmartin at googlemail.com
Mon Nov 1 11:42:05 EDT 2010


On 1 Nov 2010, at 15:12, Anurag Chowdhury wrote:

> Since , now we all seem to reach on a common proposal of agreement for
> the above issue . And since Gary has confirmed  a noticeable
> improvement in the reduction of the delay time due to the changes
> applied by the v5 patch

Just to be clear, I preferred Martin Dengler's resolution of the issue, it fixes an inefficiency rather than adding code to work around it:

	http://www.martindengler.com/tmp/sl.o-2080/pulsingicon.py-set-new-colors-in-one-go-to-avoid-multiple-calls-to-SVG-rendering.patch

Regards,
--Gary

> and some more tweaks
> discussed in the thread , so I think we can move to make a revised
> patch for this issue which can improve the situation for now and if we
> are still required to change the animation as the final solution we
> can later reopen the ticket as an enhancement request.
> 
> On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 12:19 PM, Martin Dengler
> <martin at martindengler.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 05:51:35PM -0400, Martin Langhoff wrote:
>>> The same (potentially complex) SVG is being rendered in 2 tones, many
>>> times. This is nonsense.
>>> 
>>> Render it once to a B/W grayscale raster. Then use/abuse whatever
>>> cairo bitblit blend operators.
>> [...]
>>> Maybe I am making wild assumptions about the bitblt ops you have available...
>> 
>> You've exceeded my knowledge of cairo :).  Sounds like a promising
>> thing to investigate
>> 
>>> m
>> 
>> Martin
>> 



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