Re: [iPAQ] UWM -- the unnamed window manager

On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 09:50:28AM -0200, Eduardo Marcel Maçan wrote:
> > b) with 100+ pixels across, the pie menu will always obscure a
> > considerable part of the screen. it then becomes, in fact, a modal
> > dialog instead of a menu. but if you're doing modal dialogs anyway, you
> > can do much better than using menus.
>
> Alpha blending menus could be useful there somehow, couldn't they? :)
> I speak without having any experience on this kind of programming,
> so I have no clue as to how difficult it would be to implement that. :P

I'd oppose the idea on non-programming grounds. contrast, brightness in
general readability is a major problem for PDA devices. remember they
are not used in the office, but in a lot of environments with less than
optimal lighting conditions, and most people who care for battery life
don't switch the backlight on unless it's needed.

semi-transparency greatly reduces the contrast, making readibility
worse than it already is.

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