[2005-02-12 10:29] David McDowell said:
| transparent is non color based. Transparent means there is no layer
| or invisible layer under your graphic. There is the checkerboard like
| background to the window under/behind (however you wanna say it) your
| graphic. It simple lacks the ability to stay that way when looking at
| it. That checkerboard area is too bold and the checkered size is too
| large. The darker squares should be dulled down to a lighter grey and
| the square size should be smaller.
gimp has a dialog for modifying this:
File -> Preferences -> Display
There is an option to set "Light Checks" for the Transparency
type, as well as three "Check size" setting. Sure, it could be
more configurable...I'm sure they'd accept a patch :-)
b
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