[Xorg] Solicitation of screen shots of new facilities in action...

Rich Wareham rjw57 at hermes.cam.ac.uk
Thu Aug 19 04:10:07 PDT 2004


On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 07:02:30PM +0100, Rich Wareham wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 11:03:36AM -0400, Jim Gettys wrote:
> > Well, we have a release coming up.
> > 
> > It sure would be nice to have some up to date eye candy screen
> > shots showing off what the new facilities (e.g. Composite, Damage,
> > Evie, etc.) to go with the release.
> 
> Not terribly exciting but I've been hacking Gtk + metacity to support
> the new ARGB visual type. You can how have properly alpha-composited
> window borders.
> 
> http://lotsofnakedwomen.com/~rjw57/haxie2.png
> 
> Note that this is just a simple PNG theme with some holes drilled in it
> via the gimp. Note the nice blending around the smooth hole.

and I'm almost ready to submit a patch to metacity and Gtk. Look at the
sexiness here with opaque title text on a translucent background:

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/attachment.cgi?id=30745&action=view

:)

-- 
Rich



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