On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 7:39 PM, Gautam Iyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 02:32:56PM +0100, Ingo Wardinski wrote: > > > since a while several patches have been existing to allow fvwm to > > exhibit menutranslucency and other features. However, a part of these > > features never made into fvwm. Currently, the users (which want such > > features) have to apply patches to the actual fvwm-version in order to > > get these, again and again as the fvwm-version changes. This seems to > > me slightly dissatisfactory, as it consumes time which has been spent > > already to patch a previous version, not to mention the time which is > > needed to adjust the patches. > > I think it would be wonderful to have some of these patches included. > > My wonderful distribution (Gentoo) thankfully ships Fvwm with some of > these patches applied. (The same is true for the live ebuild in the > devnull overlay). So I won't be heartbroken if this request is ignored > or denied. > > But it would be nice to have these patches made "official".
I've been working lately in adding support for "real" transparency (using a composite manager) to fvwm. It's not as easy as I'd like, and I've been restraining myself from submitting my patches to the tree. On the other hand I haven't looked at those translucency patches, but I promise I will asap. But be aware that I'll not personally include any "hacky" changes, as they tend to make our job more difficult. And non-composite transparency/translucency code tends to be a bit "hackish".. Cheers, Renato
