QVGA V/s VGA for GTA03 (was something about yummy CPU-GPU combos!)

[Ortwin Regel]

Who are these weird people that think window transparency on an
underpowered phone is a good idea?! What functionality does THAT give
us? I'd like to see some justification, if not from you then from
whoever is responsible for these ideas. I've lived without window
transparancy on all my PCs and handhelds up to now. I've seen it on my
brother's Vista PC and it was kind of funny for all of five minutes.

Ortwin

On 6/11/08, The Rasterman Carsten Haitzler <raster at openmoko.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Jun 2008 01:07:40 +0200 Joerg Reisenweber <joerg at openmoko.org>
> babbled:
>
>> Am Di  10. Juni 2008 schrieb Carsten Haitzler:
>> > On Tue, 10 Jun 2008 17:16:06 +0800 "Wilkinson, Alex"
>> > <alex.wilkinson at dsto.defence.gov.au> babbled:
>> >
>> > >     0n Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 01:43:08PM +0800, Carsten Haitzler wrote:
>> > >
>> > >     >we are in a world where to get gfx support to run such high
>> resolutions
>> > >     >means we need to have closed drivers. and that is not
>> > >
>> > > Curious, why is that ?
>> >
>> > graphics is the most intensive thing your device is likely to do in
>> > terms of
>> > processing. if you want soft drop shadows, alpha blending (and trust me
>> > -
>> > everyone is drooling for it out there - the iphone is doing it already)
>> > the
>>
>> No, I won't trust you here! I give a SH*T on soft shadows, even on my
>> desktop. I switch off animation because I think it's annoying waste of
>> time
>> to see "the same movie" over and over. Alpha blending? Eeew! Useless.
>
> the day the design mockups for the ui i see stop having alpha transparency
> is
> the day i make this unimportant. until that day, your "i don't care about
> this"
> is the kind of opinion that i also am not interested in, because i am being
> shown ui designs hat REQUIRE it in the long run between windows, and in the
> short term is being faked with software within windows. i am just trying to
> make something possible that is being requested, and has been for a long
> time.
> not just say "i don't care".
>
>> Every single argument been mentioned multiple times here. Redundance.
>> GTA03 has VGA - period!
>
> things can change - unlikely to be, but can. i have said it many times
> already.
>
>> 04 even better i'd bet on it. 05 virtually no-one even thinking of now,
>> not
>> to mention sourceability of parts when it's coming to real.
>>
>> And now I'm definitely stopping to feed this tro.. er, thread, which btw
>> seems nobody is looking on the weird subject any more :-/
>> ETX
>> jOERG
>>
>
>
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