Re: a 32-bit visual (8-bit alpha) for Keith Packard's composite X11 extensions.

[Keith Packard <keithp keithp com>]

Around 11 o'clock on Nov 17, Owen Taylor wrote:

> It wouldn't be very hard, but it would be essentially meaningless, since
> GdkColor has no concept of alpha, and the GDK drawing API's generally
> aren't going to make a lot of sense. 

Would it be relatively easy to kludge Gdk to merge in 0xff000000 so that 
core graphics would work in this visual?  Right now, everything not drawn 
with Render is transparent, which kinda sucks.

-keith