Re: gnome-panel crashes
- From: Matt Blaha <thecombatwombat worldwidewombat com>
- To: sams marketing-designs com
- Cc: garnome-list gnome org
- Subject: Re: gnome-panel crashes
- Date: 23 Mar 2003 23:07:28 -0500
> When the person who wrote the patch introduced it he told the GTK
> developers never to incorporate it. It is a hack, because XFree doesn't
> support transparency natively. Though from the looks of stuff with
> Keith Packard and all that jive there might be some (maybe?) good
> changes coming in the XFree86 structure. If this will allow the amount
> of people that work on GNOME to work on XFree86 then it might be a great
> thing. Transparency would get a pretty high priority because god damn
> people are suckers for eye candy. It may be stable, it may look really
> cool, but that doesn't mean it is "right". There are times that it will
> always fail. There are times when it doesn't do what is expected.
He didn't exactly tell them not to, I assume you're thinking of this
message:
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2003-February/msg00641.html
"It's a hack.
There's even a hack inside the hack
Thats how hacky this hacky hack is."
--Matt
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