Am Tue, 24 Jan 2012 12:25:53 +0900 schrieb Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman):
> On Mon, 23 Jan 2012 22:02:18 +0100 Andreas Volz <li...@brachttal.net> > said: > > > Hello, > > > > I just installed Ubuntu Oneiric and tested Unity for some days only > > to see if it has some nice features. It has some interesting > > features, but is at all not configurable enough for my needs. How > > ever, that's not topic of my email. > > > > My problem is that I've tested one of my elementary applications > > (more specific elementaryxx) in Unity. I was shocked because it > > looked really strange. I've done a real photo because screenshot > > was not working: > > > > http://imagebin.org/index.php?mode=image&id=195126 > > > > If I take a complete screenshot of my desktop with gimp nothing is > > visible. If I take a screenshot of this single window the resulting > > image looks like it should, except that window should be > > transparent: > > > > http://imagebin.org/index.php?mode=image&id=195127 > > > > Strange, not? > > > > If I set window without alpha support than it works in Unity. > > > > You could easily reproduce this by running elementary_test example > > group "Window/Background" and "Window states" and press "Alpha On" > > with Unity 3D active. The window moved to 0/0 position and looks as > > on my photo. It still reacts to events as I could press the "Alpha > > Off" button. > > > > While running E17 all works nice. Could anyone reproduce this with > > Unity? I've a Nvidia GTS 450 card if this is relevant. > > > > Is this an elementary or Unity bug? > > almost 100% sure it's a unity bug. all elementary does is ask > ecore-evas to make an alpha window. an alpha window is simply a > window with an argb visual. this makes the MSB (upper byte) of your > pixels be an alpha channel that is then used. that's all that's > involved in making a window with an alpha channel. just make a window > with an argb visual and then fill in window pixels appropriately > (note gl engine on desktop gl(glx) doesn't work with alpha windows, > but egl/gles works). Ok, thanks for telling this. I'll see if there's a Gtk2/3 app with alpha transparency and see if this works. I'm wondering if alpha isn't working at all in Unity. Couldn't believe it! regards Andreas -- Technical Blog <http://andreasvolz.wordpress.com/> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Keep Your Developer Skills Current with LearnDevNow! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-d2d _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
