On Wednesday, 27 May 1998, at 04:09:17 (-0400),
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Imlib reuires NATIVe support for tiff, png and gif to gain TRANSPARENCY
> apon load.. without this you dont' get transparency. Simply said E uses
> pn'gs for images for the window borders - and requires transparecny to
> work - thus you need a working libpng - fnlib has a font that comes
> with it thats uses tif files - with transparency encoded - same story.
> You can do everything you want on your large commercial systems as a
> user if you rtfm.
No, Imlib doesn't require TIFF, PNG, and GIF to gain transparency. It
only really needs one of those. If you want Imlib to be useful only
as a library for the Enlightenment Window Manager, you're on the
right track. If you want it to be useful as a graphics library, you
should reconsider.
Transparency doesn't mean squat to Eterm. Neither does Fnlib.
(At present, anyway.) Eterm will always be usable without E, Fnlib,
etc. (It will require Imlib, though.) Not because the authors don't
believe in these packages, but because we believe that different people
have different needs and that software should cater to users' individuality.
That's why E is so configurable in the first place, right? So why exclude
people from that power by working against your original desires? As long
as the user understands that some things won't work right without these
libraries, they should still have the choice not to add them in. All it
takes is some #defines.
If Raster and Mandrake don't decide to do this, I'm sure it will get done
somewhere along the way.
Michael
--
"I now cry streams of blood because I had to take my stand. I crush
my eyes beneath my heel as my heart pulses in my hand."
-- "Forsaken"
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Associate Tech Services Analyst I, Vencor IS http://www.vencor.com/
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