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

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 15:07, Keith Packard wrote:
> Around 14 o'clock on Nov 17, Owen Taylor wrote:
> 
> > It shouldn't be hard, no. But is there a point without more
> > comprehensive support? When would windows/pixmaps with this visual
> > be created? (GTK+ assigns visuals to pixmaps on the client side.)
> 
> Because then I could run metacity with ARGB visuals; right now, I get the 
> title text and a few random pieces of the decorations for ARGB windows.  
> It's amusing, but somewhat less that entirely useful.

If somebody wants to come up with a simple patch that makes 
gdk_colormap_alloc_colors() produce opaque colors with the ARGB visual,
that's fine with me.

Regards,
					Owen