Antialiased images in gnome-pixmap

[Loban Rahman <loban earthling net>]

I'm using several gnome-pixmaps that load png files of images with alpha
channels. However, when the gnome-pixmaps are displayed, the images lose
their alpha channels, and hence aren't "antialiased". Making
GnomeCanvasPixbuf's on a GnomeCanvas in aa mode keeps the png images'
alpha-channels.

Question:
(1) Why don't gnome-pixmap's keep their images' alpha channels?
(2) Is there a widget that I can use that doesn't have this problem?
(3) What does the Gnome Panel use (it has antialiasing)?

I'm using libglade, if that affects anything.

Thanx.

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