Re: MC and the desktop

[<nuke bayside net>]

On Tue, 19 May 1998, Miguel de Icaza wrote:

> 
> > if the icons weren't always on top, then they shouldn't ever need to be
> > transparent windows, should they? 
> 
> icons are already created `lowered'.  Performance problems should be
> attributed to the X server.  

how about icons that are actually square, blank windows with the
background image set to the actual icon image set against that portion of
the root window? maybe i didn't make that clear enough in my last
message.. but it would be very useful to let the server take care of all
drawing.
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