RE: MacOS X first picture

["Z. Leite" <zleite technologist com>]

I tried the latest xfree (3.9.17) and it has a bunch of neat stuff included
in the package, like mesa and truetype fonts, so I guess progress is being
made. I haven't heard of any consideration on adding alpha channels though.
OTOH, they are pretty closed anyways..

Z

> -----Original Message-----
> From: hp@icon.labs.redhat.com
> [mailto:hp@icon.labs.redhat.com]On Behalf
> Of Havoc Pennington
> Sent: Friday, January 07, 2000 11:57 PM
> To: John Sullivan
> Cc: Iain; gnome-list@gnome.org
> Subject: Re: MacOS X first picture
>
>
> John Sullivan <sullivan@eazel.com> writes:
> > Can Sawmill/E themes include translucent menus and windows,
> alpha channel
> > drop shadows, and video effects for window opening/closing?
> >
>
> Not a chance. :-)
>
> It will be quite some time before we get an imaging model as good as
> MacOS X into the X server. Some people are said to be working on it,
> but it's a big job and will require applications to be recoded.  E
> tries to do all kinds of crazy stuff and often succeeds but it's
> fighting and torturing X all the way and it's inherently going to have
> lots of limitations. No way to make it properly polished like MacOS X.
>
> Of course we can do all this stuff _within_ an application using
> libart or OpenGL or even Display PostScript, it's just that the X
> design makes it quite infeasible for the desktop as a whole.
>
> Havoc
>
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