Comments on: Ain’t it pretty, ma?

By: Jakub Steiner

Jakub Steiner — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 22:09:31 +0000

Lovely animation!

By: Rui

Rui — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 16:55:53 +0000

Carlos, you rock! Amazing effect. BTW, it’s these kinds of effects that are lacking all around gtk/gnome to make it more organic/friendly/cute/usable/…

By: Wade Menard

Wade Menard — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 13:28:12 +0000

Maybe its just the gif dropping frames but doesn’t that effect make anyone else nauseated?

By: Karl Lattimer

Karl Lattimer — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 11:35:29 +0000

I’d love to see this effect included in instanbul to signify mouse clicks on the videos.

It would provide much more visually appealing screen casts.

By: Jon Cooper

Jon Cooper — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 11:35:16 +0000

How does this compare to the Compiz plugin that achieves the same?

I am presuming this will take preference and be part of the platform?

By: Livio

Livio — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 05:36:03 +0000

Nice effect. I wonder if GTK could use OpenGL…

By: jdub

jdub — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 04:10:31 +0000

Awesome!

By: Travis Reitter

Travis Reitter — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 02:57:16 +0000

Carlos, that effect is awesome for the purpose!

Is it possible to get info from the compositor about the area below the effect?

This effect would work even better if you could make the “ripple” high-contrast compared to what’s around it – maybe a good approximation would be to color this effect the inversion of the area under it, so it has an even higher chance of standing out.