Re: Is Alpha Channel support in next release plan?

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 11:48:57AM -0600, Michael L Torrie wrote: 
> I agree about the hacks (ie QT, etc).  One point this brings up, though,
> is will GTK and GDK be doing more of the rendering client-side?  I know
> that Pango does font rendering client-side.  I realize that I was
> advocating client-side drawing in my last post, but now I realize that
> this is not always desirable, although it seems to be the trend these
> days (ie xft, xrender).  Is this a good thing?  At some level this type
> of thing seems to negate all the benefits of X while trying to overcome
> X's deficiencies, leaving us with a system that may as well not be
> X-based at all.  Personally, I will argue vehemently against abandoning
> X11, as I live and breath the remote display capabilities.

No worries, client side rendering is where we're going for a lot of
reasons but that doesn't break remote display.

Havoc