Re: Dragging and droping on the desktop

["Manuel Amador (Rudd-O)" <amadorm usm edu ec>]

If it's using OpenGL, then can't be used as the nautilus canvas for the 
desktop.  Remember that GNOME has to run network-transparently (Sun 
SunRays and the like) and I think evas won't perform adequately or at 
all on remote displays.

MArk Finlay wrote:

> On Sun, 2003-03-23 at 14:05, iain wrote:
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> > On Sun, 2003-03-23 at 10:06, MArk Finlay wrote:
> >    
> >
> > > Has anyone ever thought of using evas as the desktop canvas?
> > > It's the e17 canvas and apparently is really fast :)
> > >      
> > And had issues with polygon shapes. It would draw them, but treated them
> > as squares with transparency.
> >
> > Might have changed recently though.
> >    
>
> donno, But all I hear is that it gets around a lot of X limitations
> by directly using OpenGl. 
>
> If not now then when it becomes stable It'd be cool to see it
> used in gnome ip appropriate.
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