[razua]

well first of all..this is one of the best app. ever !!, we can't live without it..., now just a little question...How does the quality setting affects the desklet ?? does it do something??? .....,

[kamengau]

"We can live without it..." isn't exactly a compliment. "We can't live without it" on the other hand...

[razua]

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Originally posted by razua@Aug 5 2004, 01:48 AM
well  first of all..this is one of the best app. ever !!, we can't live without it..., now just a little question...How does the quality setting affects the desklet ?? does it do something??? .....,
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hehe...my mistake >.< , english is my second language,,,

[herd]

Quality affects the way AveDesk:
- resizes an image
- draws text
- draws drop shadows

Resizing images is a CPU- intensive task. For PCs faint at heart,
AveDesk offers adaption to this resource.

Images are resized either with a slow but good quality or a
fast but inferior quality; since desklets can be designed to any size,
AveDesk needs to resize to the user defined appearance settings.

The inferior quality can be seen only if you resize largely designed
desklets to a very small size - they may appear more pixelized
than with good quality.

One exception is SysStats, it'll ignore the users choice and take it as
a clipping rectangle, so that actually no resizing takes place.

The text rendering will be affected that AveDesk wont use ClearType
or any available Antialiasing with text, if using low settings. Again,
on some older notebooks or PCs with integrated graphics, this may
be desirable.

As for drop shadows, I'm not sure if they are affected, I'll look for it
soon.

Mostly, you wont need to play with the performance settings unless
you are running a PC below 800 MHz Celeron and even then, a good
graphics card on AGP-1 wont force you to do so. The performance gain
is, to my knowledge, barely noticable.

[razua]

got it..thanks!

[AndreasV]

Herd is right on the fonts and resizing rendering. The shadows are not (yet) affected by the selected quality, since most shadows are cached anyway and most desklet do have a static background icon. An exception is SysStats, so I will probably make the dropshadows quality configurable.

In pre AveDesk 1.0 - those that you, luckily, never saw - releases, the quality also determined the way some graphics were cached internally. I completely dropped that mechanism, since it was highly unreliable The quality option is still there tho.