[Gimp-web] News on Screenshots/Imagebox

[Roman Joost]

On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 07:02:59PM +0200, Raphaël Quinet wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Aug 2007 15:38:10 +0200, Jakub Steiner <jimmac at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Is imagebox really that horrible? ;) But yea, in the end it's a matter
> > of letting the one who's willing to do the dirty work to decide.
> 
> It would also be nice if the user could decide.  I have seen that
> browsing through the screenshots can be a painful experience on a
> machine that does not have 2D/3D accelerated graphics (well, at least
> I think that's the explanation for the speed differences that I
> observed).  The fade-in menus are slow but bearable, but the box for
> the screenshots is killing the machine.
Yes - I have to admit that using the semi-transparent background cold be
a real pain.

> What about adding a checkbox near the top of the page saying "Yes,
> I want fancy animations for the screenshots?".  The Javascript code
> could then check the state of this option before deciding if it
> should do its magic or not.  Hmmm...  I don't know how well this
> can work while rewriting the links, but hopefully that problem can
> be solved.
Actually I don't think that people would use that checkbox. 80% will
oversee it, 19% don't care and maybe 1% will check it.

I think a better solution would be to turn of the semi-transparent
background ...

Greetings,
-- 
Roman Joost
www: http://www.romanofski.de
email: romanofski at gimp.org
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