On Mon, 13 Oct 2008 09:48:15 -0700 Colin D Bennett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I *am* interested in getting high performance, but > (1) I simply don't have time to do it myself right now, and > (2) gfxmenu seems plenty fast to me--I have run Lua-driven full screen > animations as a desktop background for gfxmenu, and it worked > fantastically. The menu system performs decently even on my > ultra-low-power-but-low-performance-too Via C3 system. Another reason I did not implement dirty region repaint optimization that I forgot to mention: (3) Dirty region repaint handling does not help at all when most of the screen is being updated on each frame. Since I expect the "fancy menu" to become more and more full of eye-candy (that is the purpose, after all!), the dirty region handling would only help for the most vanilla of themes. I have said I will add some animation and special effects to GRUB. Things that I think would be cool (and cool => more people drawn to use GRUB) include a fade-in/fade-out when GRUB starts/executes an entry, a fully animated background of some sort (of the type that many xscreensavers use), etc. Regards, Colin
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