On Tuesday 22 March 2005 18:43, Daevid Vincent wrote:
I have to concur too. I think the OS-X zooming is one of the single coolest eye-candy features of the mac, and I use AquaDoc on my winXP with a jaguar theme just to emulate it. I've longed for this look/feel for KDE too.
If I remember correctly from the developer list, the way OS X does it (gradient zooming) can't be implemented.
Reason: surprise, surprise, Apple has a patent on it
Did they forget that they lost the suit against M$?
If it is based on an algorithm that is novel enough, they can patent the algorithm, but I don't see how they can patent the screen appearance.
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