Is there any reason not to use the QT GUI everywhere? Any architecture that supports X11 but not QT?
-รก. On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 11:33, Norbert Nemec <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi there, > > it was mentioned before that alpha-transparency should be addressed in > TeXmacs. Apart from X11, all other GUIs should support this in a > straightforward way. Is there any idea, how it could be added to the GUI > abstraction in the cleanest way so that TeXmacs graphics could begin making > use of it? > > Specifically, it would be essential for the table border hints that I > attempted to implement a while ago. Currently, the hints are opaque > light-gray and get in the way for equations where the content often extends > over the cell boundaries. Putting the hints in the background behind the > content was not a solution either, because nested tables would then cover > the hints of inner tables by the background color of outer tables. > > The most difficult issue for extending the GUI abstraction seems to be a > fallback solution for the X11 GUI and possibly other that do not offer alpha > transparency. Once alpha transparency is used for anything essential in > TeXmacs, these GUIs would become unusable. > > Is it time to drop the X11 GUI? Or at least accept that future versions will > make it less and less usable as alpha transparency is being used for more > and more features in TeXmacs? It could still be included as legacy code, but > I believe it will slow down the development of TeXmacs in general if every > piece of code is restricted to the limitations of the X11 GUI. > > Greetings, > Norbert > > _______________________________________________ > Texmacs-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/texmacs-dev > _______________________________________________ Texmacs-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/texmacs-dev
