Re: Is Alpha Channel support in next release plan?

[Christof Petig <christof petig-baender de>]

I am somewhat irritated by the absense of core developers in this thread.

Is translucency considered a core feature or a non interesting niche 
candy? Or was this discussed many times ago? (I'm new to _this_ list)

(I somewhat remember translucency mentioned on the roadmap for gtk 3.0)

Miroslav Silovic schrieb:
> You -could- use non-X11 implementations of gdk as a testbed for this 
> (directFB, MacOSX (is it available?) or *gasp* win32).

OT: hrmpf. If only I had the possibility. On my 2nd generation iBook 
MacOSX was not included, directFB couldn't handle the display and Win32 
is not an option. sigh

> Not a problem, the OpenGL hack of X11 already is available. :) Check

Thank you for these very interesting links!

> Furthermore, translucent windows seem to be on the roadmap for the 
> XFree86 5.0. See the 10th entry at
>
> http://www.xfree86.org/pipermail/forum/2003-March/000004.html

Though it does not get discussed further - meaning low interest by the 
core developers? I hope not.

Hey this is about technological advances happening or not in gtk which 
are already present in Qt!
   Christof

PS: I have been very pleased with gtk's advances in the past (pixbuf 
integration, treeview). Excellent work!!!
But transparency nags me (being used in my wife's low cost 
Windows-tax-program and unavailable for me).
PPS: I use gtkmm.