On Wed, 4 Feb 2004 10:50:10 +0000 Stroller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | I think Norro is kidding you on... Mac OS X's windows manager is years | ahead of other o/s in terms of eye-candy, and supports transparency in | a way others do not. I think that on Linux & Windows any "transparent" | window has to fake it - I believe it does this by looking at what | should be behind itself, and mixing the transparency itself to paint | as it's own background. On Mac OS X the transparency is handled by the | o/s, and is hence a lot more efficient.
Uh, you mean like how fdo Xserver gives true translucency on linux with the XCOMPOSITE stuff? -- Ciaran McCreesh Mail: ciaranm at gentoo.org Web: http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm
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