On Tue, Sep 26, 2000 at 05:47:02PM +0100, Jules Bean wrote: > On Tue, Sep 26, 2000 at 10:20:38AM -0600, Joshua Shagam wrote: > > > > And, if I'm not mistaken, imlib is one of Rasterman's over-glitzy > > under-functional piles of code... :) > > Well, I don't think this is a very productive thread, but... No. > Imlib may have had some bugs (what doesn't) but raster was quite > correct to observe the need for it, and he wrote a library to handle a > variety of image formats at any colour depth, and the fast copying of > them to the screen, and memory management of them. > > The GNOME project realised that he was right about its necessity, > although they eventually diverged from him over implementation issues > (differing priorities). But I don't think it was particularly glitzy, > no. > > And imlib2 offers transparency, which you probably think is glitzy, > but I think it is a useful user interface element given that modern > graphics hardware is up to the task.
But not supported yet by xfree, isn't it ? Friendly, Sven LUTHER
