Re: [Nautilus-list] That blinking white thing when users log in (was Re: Final Candidate...)

[Darin Adler <darin eazel com>]

on 4/10/01 11:05 AM, Adam Haile at adam haile duke edu wrote:

> On 10 Apr 2001 09:59:38 -0700, Darin Adler wrote:
>> The white flash at login is something we'd like to fix some day
>> <http://bugzilla.eazel.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2185>. But we can't simply copy
>> what gmc does to fix the bug, because we support anti-aliasing between the
>> icons and the desktop background to make desktop icons look good. The gmc
>> approach of using a separate X window for each icon does not allow
>> anti-aliasing between the icons and the background, but the single X window
>> for the background does.
> 
> The Gnome terminal samples the background image in order to generate a
> pseudo-transparent background.  Couldn't you combine separate X windows
> for each icon with anti-aliasing by doing the same thing?  Sample the
> bit of background behind the icon and blend the anti-aliasing into that.
> People who use animated backgrounds (xsnow) will still notice some
> weirdness in the local vicinity of the icons, though.

Maybe.

"We are now accepting patches."

    -- Darin