[mythtv] [mythtv-commits] Ticket #6865: Apply mirror effect to MythCenter watermarks like it is in MythCenter-wide

[Robert McNamara]

On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 7:05 PM, MythTV<mythtv at cvs.mythtv.org> wrote:
> #6865: Apply mirror effect to MythCenter watermarks like it is in MythCenter-wide
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>  Reporter:  Marc Alban <marcalban at gmail.com>  |       Owner:  ijr
>     Type:  patch                             |      Status:  new
>  Priority:  trivial                           |   Milestone:  0.22
> Component:  Themes                            |     Version:  head
>  Severity:  low                               |     Mlocked:  0
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>  The mirror effect on the MythCenter-wide watermarks looks good.
>
>  This patch applies the same effect to the non-wide MythCenter theme.

Hi Marc,

I'm not opposed to the change (though I'm by no means the only one
decide such things), but the problem with effects applied to
watermarks (as I understand it) is that we take a performance hit in
applying them versus just editing the static image and adding the
reflection to that.  The prevailing wisdom as I understand it is that
the reflect attribute should be used on dynamic images provided by the
user (coverart, fanart, etc.), and that static images (like
watermarks) should have it applied in an image manipulation program to
save the user the performance hit.

Let me know what you think about that.  Perhaps a compromise of
changing the watermark images in GIMP and applying those instead?

Robert