On Wednesday 08 September 2004 20:17, Frans Englich wrote:
> Easy solution: Remove the offending code.

Yeah, sure, tell people porting KDE to other platforms to remove whatever they 
don't manage to port.
Sorry, this doesn't make sense.

> But perhaps people, and their 
> dogs, would die if this (wanna-be) transparency and shadows were removed?

Yes - we usually remove the old solution only once the new one is in place,
to avoid regressions. It doesn't make sense to regress "because in the future
we'll have better". The future is not a guarantee, in a world of voluntary contributions.

-- 
David Faure, faure@kde.org, sponsored by Trolltech to work on KDE,
Konqueror (http://www.konqueror.org), and KOffice (http://www.koffice.org).