[maemo-developers] [Fremantle] Compositing is disabled in fullscreen

[From: Cornelius Hald]

Hi Luca,

On Wed, 2010-09-08 at 17:13 +0200, Luca Donaggio wrote:
> Well, it could be... but I was looking at Conboy's sources and I
> couldn't see any obvious difference between it's interface setup and
> the (silly) example I included before, nor any theme-specific stuff.
> So why does he-fullscreen-button is semi transparent in
> Conboy'fullscreen mode and not in my example?
> I feel like I'm missing something really obvious here :-) !

I've tried your example code and I get the exact same behavior. No
transparency. I've looked for differences between your code and my code,
tried some things, but couldn't find anything that did affect the
result.

I'm quite sure that it is a problem with the compositor, because I can
see the transparency if I start your example and go to fullsceen. Then
quickly open and close the virtual keyboard. After that the button is
transparent for a couple of seconds. Probably the virtual keyboard
enables the compositor.

>From what I know the compositor should automatically get started "when
it is needed". But unfortunately I have no idea how that is determined.
Maybe someone with more knowledge of Maemo internals could comment on
that.

I've never used the full screen button outside of Conboy and only
developed it in this context. Still, I could find Maepad where the
button is also working (not sure if there are more working examples). I
really hope we can find out why it is working in some applications and
why not in others. After that I'll happily fix this bug in
HeFullscreenButton. Unfortunately I'm currently out of ideas.

If you (or anyone else) have ideas/input/anything, please let me know.
Sorry that I can't be more helpful right now.

Cheers,
Conny

P.S. Now I also feel like I'm missing something totally obvious :)