Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: >In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, >Christian Schoenebeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>I'm still waiting for the ability to use real transparency. What's the deal >>with this anyway? I mean, what is the problem that there's still only pseudo >>transparency? >> >> > >Someone has to design how this fits in with the existing X11 >protocol, probably develop an extension, then write the code, >and invent and document an API for this. > >Then all applications that want real transparency probably need to >be rewritten to take advantage of this. > >That's not something you do in a day. In fact, it's probably >not something you can do in a year. > >Mike. > > > > I downloaded and burned a KNOPPIX CD this past week (it is way cool, btw - higly recommended for demo-ing Linux and for emergency OS needs, like for testing Windows-based PCs if you can't get hardware/network working or you need to save files to the network on a hosed Windows system, etc); I noticed that the KDE3 "K" menu had what I understand to be true transparency; at least it was the same type of transparency I've seen on Macintosh OS/X.
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