Re: a 32-bit visual (8-bit alpha) for Keith Packard's composite X11 extensions.

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

On Sat, 2003-11-15 at 17:21, Michael Torrie wrote:
> Is such a thing planned?  How hard would it be to add this 32-bit visual
> to GDK?

It wouldn't be very hard, but it would be essentially meaningless, since
GdkColor has no concept of alpha, and the GDK drawing API's generally
aren't going to make a lot of sense. 

I'm not sure there is much point in trying to handle this before we
tackle the issue of the planned integration of Cairo as the
next-generation replacement for gdk_draw_*.

Regards,
						Owen