Usability Review of OpenMoko GTK+ Applications

["Marco Trevisan (Treviño)"]

Rodolphe Ortalo ha scritto:
> Le lundi 10 mars 2008 à 13:27 +0000, Thomas Wood a écrit :
>> I've been thinking about the usability of the GTK+ based OpenMoko
>> applications and I have come up with some suggestions I'd like to
>> implement.
> [...]
>> Theme
>> -----
>>
>> The biggest problem with the current theme is performance. The main
>> issue here is the use of gradients which requires either stretching
>> images or dithering (for 16bit display). Both these are a significant
>> performance hit, so I would like to suggest redesigning the theme to be
>> faster and more efficient.
> 
> Is it really necessary to adjust the theme itself to solve such
> performance issue? My first reaction reading you was: would it be
> possible to use some kind of caching (or static pre-processing) to solve
> these issues (esp. as the UI configuration is not so dynamic)? But I am
> not well aware of all the implications here so I may have a bad
> perception of the problem itself.


And isn't there any way to improve the 2d rendering performances 
improving the video chipset driver?!?

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