Myles Byrne wrote: >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. Can we make >png based sawfish themes that are semitransparent? Can the panels also >take advantage of aplha blending (ATM i dont think you can even make >them transparent)? and finally what about the cursor? > Sorry about the late reply. This might do some of what you want:
http://www.directfb.org/xdirectfb.xml (if anyone has mandrake rpm's for this I'd be thrilled to know where to get them. This is precisely the sort of cpu cycle wasting technology that my computer needs) The nvidia geforce cards also do drop shadows on the mouse pointer if you set the right options in XF86Config-4 As I understand it, transparency is quite tricky using just X. Video cards can probably do alpha blending quite nicely (although, the last time I saw someone do alpha-blending they went to the trouble of doing MMX assembly code because they decided that it was too slow otherwise.) HTH James. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
