[maemo-developers] Screenshot as loading screen on Maemo 5

[From: Kimmo Hämäläinen]

On Fri, 2009-10-23 at 08:28 +0200, ext Claudio Saavedra wrote:
> El jue, 22-10-2009 a las 16:36 +0100, Andrew Flegg escribió:
> > On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 16:06, Aniello Del Sorbo <anidel at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > [snip]
> > > Thus I thought I'll take the screenshot at the expose event and only
> > > take it if the file is not there already.
> > 
> > I *think* you need to do it at every expose event. What if the user
> > changes theme and the font colours change (for example)?
> 
> I think the screenshots are removed on theme switch, so after the user
> switches the theme, the screenshot need to be taken again. That's why

Yes, theme change, locale change, time change, restoring a backup (this
in hildon-desktop HEAD) all remove the screenshots.

> it's a good idea to check for the existence of the screenshot and
> recreate it if necessary.

Now that the function is missing this argument (bad design). We should
add some API for creating the screenshot _only if_ it does not exist.
Because the place where the screenshot is stored, is not really public
information.

-Kimmo

> 
> Claudio
> 
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > 
> > Andrew
> > 
> 
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