<quote who="Myles Byrne">
> Does anyone what know what the current status of aplha blending is in
> gnome 2? I've googled around and found screen shots of a nice looking
> login screen, and another of really ugly tree-leave like widgets so I
> know its possible I was just wondering how far it extends.
There are lots of places where alpha blending is possible, and many where it
isn't, or isn't efficient.
The login screen is a new canvas-based GDM greeter, which basically just
looks pretty. The widgets you saw were from the new gdk-pixbuf-based pixmap
theme for GTK+, which now lets you use transparent PNGs to create all sorts
of ugly, horrid creations.
(I've never been a fan of pixmap themes, they always look arse.)
> Can we make png based sawfish themes that are semitransparent?
No. X doesn't currently support true alpha blending across clients (in a
non-hackish way). GNOME has a tendency to wait for standards rather than
implimenting random wacky stuff.
> Can the panels also take advantage of aplha blending (ATM i dont think you
> can even make them transparent)?
No (for the same reasons), although the 1.4 panel has a translucency feature
similar to the hacks found in gnome-terminal. It's certainly not real.
> and finally what about the cursor?
Definitely not.
> I know its not an essential feature but it is a cool one :) and with a
> hardware accelerated canvas (I think the enlightenment guys are working on
> one) the cpu usage would be minimal.
Evas (which is by no means vapourware, it works and rocks) is really cool,
but there are no plans to use it in the GNOME 2.x desktop or platform
libraries so far. There is a GTK+ Evas widget though, so you can use it in
your own GNOME/GTK+ software.
Thanks,
- Jeff
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