Re: real transparency (under X11)

[Kent West <westk@acu.edu>]

Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:

> In article <[🔎] E17lVSl-0000l6-00@hyperion.heim.lan>,
> Christian Schoenebeck  <christian.schoenebeck@epost.de> wrote:
>  
>
> > I'm still waiting for the ability to use real transparency. What's the deal 
> > with this anyway? I mean, what is the problem that there's still only pseudo 
> > transparency?
> >    
>
> Someone has to design how this fits in with the existing X11
> protocol, probably develop an extension, then write the code,
> and invent and document an API for this.
>
> Then all applications that want real transparency probably need to
> be rewritten to take advantage of this.
>
> That's not something you do in a day. In fact, it's probably
> not something you can do in a year.
>
> Mike.
>
>
>  
I downloaded and burned a KNOPPIX CD this past week (it is way cool, btw 
- higly recommended for demo-ing Linux and for emergency OS needs, like 
for testing Windows-based PCs if you can't get hardware/network working 
or you need to save files to the network on a hosed Windows system, 
etc); I noticed that the KDE3 "K" menu had what I understand to be true 
transparency; at least it was the same type of transparency I've seen on 
Macintosh OS/X.

FYI.

Kent