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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: konsole
From:       Reginald Stadlbauer <reggie () troll ! no>
Date:       1999-08-05 7:33:56
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On Thu, 05 Aug 1999, Cristian Tibirna wrote:
>Hi Antonio
>
>I understood you're working in improving konsole's transparent
>background feature.
>
>I would like to know to what extent are you doing this. Are you intending
>to touch TEWidget::paintEvent() TEWidget::setImage()
>TEWidget::drawAttrStr() methods?
>
>I ask because I was at hunting after the ugly repaint bug that konsole
>shows when using textured backgrounds: text is garbled by windows moving
>around the respective konsole.
>
>I have already traced the error to an erase(rect) call in drawAttrStr()
>when the background is textured. This erase deletes a rectangle which is
>bigger than what will be drawn later in the routine it seems.
>
>Anyways, I intend to look into this (there is a lot of logics to
>understand as I never looked at konsole's code before) but I'd hate to
>clash with your changes. So, let me know
>
>Good conference

Another thing about transparent konsole: If you set 'common background' in
kcmdisplay (so that all desktops have the same background), konsole doesn't use
this background on all desktops.

--
Reggie

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