Re: transparent terminals in danger!

[Luis Villa <louie ximian com>]

On Thu, 2002-05-09 at 05:39, Mike Martin wrote:
>  --- Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com> wrote: > 
> > Ian McKellar <ian mckellar org> writes:
> > > 
> > > I hate this feature with a passion, but I'm working on adding
> > > translucency to the gnome2 panel (like I did for the gnome1
> > panel). What
> > > I have right now is a BackgroundMonitor object which monitors for
> > > desktop image changes and emits a "changed" signal. Its got a
> > call
> > > called something like background_monitor_get_widget_background or
> > > something that returns a gdkpixbuf of the desktop image
> > underneath a
> > > given widget. Perhaps we can share this code between the terminal
> > and
> > > the panel.
> > > 
> > 
> > Sounds good to me. (We should probably cram transparent panels into
> > GNOME 2 before the 13th, just so Luis will hate us - I'm tired of
> > posting to Gnotices about cool stuff and seeing the "that's nice,
> > but
> > are panels transparent?" comments ;-)
> > 
> > Havoc
> 
> Just curious - how many people are getting crashes - not seen any myself

Lots of people; at last glance it is far and away the most reported
crash in GNOME2. And it is in the terminal, which... well, I'm thinking
terminal crashing frequently would probably be a bad thing for our
stability reputation :) 

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=79413
and
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=75340

are the relevant bugs that I can think of off the top of my head ;)

Luis