Re: [Libreoffice] [PATCH] Improved Header/Footer UI framerate

Thanks for the reply :-) Sorry for the license, I meant MPL/LGPLv3+. I'm
still a newbie to the coding world, and my C/C++ knowledge is still very
basic, so for now I'd rather not be added to the developers' list. It was
more a small tweak rather than an actual patch.

2011/11/18 Michael Meeks <michael.meeks@suse.com>

> Hi Thomas,
>
>        First - welcome ! :-) it's great to see you here, and thanks for the
> patch.
>
> On Fri, 2011-11-18 at 12:24 +0100, Thomas Collerton wrote:
> > Hello, here's a small patch which improves the the framerate of the
> > new Header/Footer UI in Writer. Released under LGPLv3
>
>         It looks nice :-) Of course, we require an MPL/LGPLv3+ dual
> license for
> code contributions - so it'd be great to have a blanket statement to the
> list about that, that we can link into:
>
>        http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/Developers
>
>        Reading the code there, it's not that clear to me how the fading
> works,
> something I should have dug at before. Does our timeout handler cope
> with a machine where the re-rendering is very slow gracefully ? ie. by
> limiting the transition to an absolute time - and checking current-time
> in the timeout handler ?
>
>        Anyhow - this'd be for Cedric to review really. Do you have some
> other
> issues you're interested in looking at ? [ the fade-in controls around
> writer objects is an idea that could be extended quite a lot to other
> things in writer I suspect ;-].
>
>        Thanks again,
>
>                Michael.
>
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