Re: gnome-panel crashes

[Matt Blaha <thecombatwombat worldwidewombat com>]

> When the person who wrote the patch introduced it he told the GTK
> developers never to incorporate it.  It is a hack, because XFree doesn't
> support transparency natively.  Though from the looks of stuff with
> Keith Packard and all that jive there might be some (maybe?) good
> changes coming in the XFree86 structure.  If this will allow the amount
> of people that work on GNOME to work on XFree86 then it might be a great
> thing.  Transparency would get a pretty high priority because god damn
> people are suckers for eye candy.  It may be stable, it may look really
> cool, but that doesn't mean it is "right".  There are times that it will
> always fail.  There are times when it doesn't do what is expected.
He didn't exactly tell them not to, I assume you're thinking of this
message:


http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2003-February/msg00641.html

"It's a hack.
There's even a hack inside the hack
Thats how hacky this hacky hack is."

--Matt