Re: [E-devel] [RFC] Removing gradient

[Gustavo S. B. <bar...@pr...>]

Die, die, die lovely. I'm one that hate it and find mostly useless
other than demos or geek show offs. If you ask a GUI designer he will
probably come with a modified gradient and not a simple radial/linear
one with multiple steps and probably layers... At the end it turns to
be so slow that must be pre rendered and turns the API useless.

What I'd support is the helper libs that raster suggested. It could
provide smart objects that handle gradients as images, circles,
elipse, bezier and other paths as polygons and even use
Cairo/Skia/AntiGrain as vector-to-image

On Friday, June 25, 2010, Cedric BAIL <ced...@fr...> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>    Gradient in Evas and Edje needs a lot of attention and love. We
> currently have two implementations in Evas, gradient and gradient2.
> The later was intended to replace the former and should be easier to
> accelerate in hardware. But it never received enought attention,
> that's why Edje still use gradient. The only viable plan if we want to
> keep this API is if someone adapt Edje to use gradient2, so we could
> remove gradient and then rename gradient2 to gradient. But every one
> of us is currently busy and many user prefer to use GIMP to generate a
> gradient as a bitmap and just use that.
>    So if no one can take care of it, I propose that after next
> snapshot, we remove all code that refer to gradient and gradient2 in
> Evas, Edje and E17 (This only concern the gradient background config
> dialog).
>
> Is someone ready to take care of gradient, or it's going to die !
> --
> Cedric BAIL
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