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[MiNT] Cool new AES features



Hello,

Regarding the wind_calc() usage. There will be very little applications
that would survive on-fly theme change (cause they _use_ and will use
wind_calc() on and on) so this 'change theme only for new windows
feature' will IMHO stay experimental forever.

Well... i don't know.

Theme on the fly is not related to wind_calc() IMO.

windom is for sure already ready for change of theme on the fly because IIRC there's no AES data cached in windom. When windom needs some AES data (work area of a window for example), then windom ask it to the AES thru wind_get().

 As long as application/lib authors dont want to use new features, you
are right.

i want to use USEFULL feature, and i'll go a little far : i want to support new AES feature if it benefit to the user.

ATM, all i see is modification that pretend to make the programmer life easier (i don't agree on this point), and which is absolutely transparent for the user. So what's for ? the only (very important) point i notice is it break compatibility and the way applications works... just for the fun to make things incompatible ?... (i'll try to argument on this on another post, please keep this post about new cool AES features).

Does this mean I should stop work on XaAES right now? It is
by now up to where n.aes is and needs no further development if this is
the attitude... I'm really getting sick of this.

I'm really getting sick of this too :)

i want real new features for the USER.

I'll give an example to illustrate what i try to explain : in MyAES, the user can set an image as background instead of the desktop, and this background cover the whole screen (including the background of the menubar). The first time i saw it, i found it very cool and great ! I immediatly started to create my how background picture to customize my desktop. I was very happy USER. There is no change in the API for the programmer for this particular example.

Please think first about cool new features for the USER ! it's the most important. Then, we can discuss on the best way to design it for programmer in the AES API if needed.

USER, if you have request, please speak ! we need your idea ! Most of the people here are programmer (i am one of them ;)) and we sometime forget the real purpose of the software : be used by a USER that doesn't matter if the WCOWORK mode is used or not in its application.

USER, we're waiting for your idea :)


best regards,
Arnaud.