On 2010-03-18 20:13-0400 Hazen Babcock wrote: > So, while I agree that we should support this feature I don't think it > is going to be that cool for most linux users for a while yet.
Although, I don't have any of the transparency troubles you mentioned for your X server, I do have some mediocre performance (on both X servers) when using "display -immutable", i.e., I have noticed a slowdown when switching between X windows. Such transparency issues probably depend very much on your X stack version and your hardware. X is very slow right now for any special effects because of all the X stack reorganization that has been going on for the last several years. However, my impression is that X stack reorganization has finally been completed, and at the same time there are a tremendous number of developers working on X who are taking advantage of that reorganization. As a result, I believe from now on things should rapidly get a lot better in terms of performance and getting the many outstanding X bugs fixed. So my hope is that transparency effects will "just work" soon for the more common video chipsets (Intel, AMD/ATI, Nvidia). Also, I absolutely agree with your conclusion. We want true transparency capability as an option which will become more and more relevant as the handling of transparency effects keeps being improved by the X developers. Alan __________________________ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.org); the libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net). __________________________ Linux-powered Science __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
