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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    RE: Transparency -- take 2
From:       Simon Hausmann <shaus () uermel ! Med ! Uni-Magdeburg ! DE>
Date:       1999-09-29 13:34:14
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On Wed, 29 Sep 1999, David Faure wrote:

> > I like this too and considered it (sharing the Pixmap handles across
> > applications). The problem: When KDesktop crashes all 
> > psudeo-transparent apps
> > will crash. You will need to check before each access and do 
> > something else if the "server" is gone.
> Hehe, it seems very related to the CORBA thread finally, even if it's
> not CORBA :)))
> 
> This is always the same problem : one program relying on another one
> has problems if that other one crashes. Even in kde-1.x we had that
> for kfm and all the apps trying to talk to it.

See? 
 
> But, since kdesktop isn't supposed to crash, is it really a problem ? :))
> 
> > I actually messed around with doing this for sharing the 
> > KThemeBase pixmap
> > cache - it would be really cool but not much has come from it 
> > yet, mostly
> > because of the above issue. Feel free to play around with it 
> > if you like, but
> > try to make it a generic pixmap sharing mechanism.
> Sure, sharing possibily ANY pixmap sounds better than sharing the desktop 
> one only...
> 
> --
> David Faure
> faure@kde.org - KDE developer
> david@mandrakesoft.com - Mandrake
> david.faure@cramer.co.uk - Cramer Systems
> 
> 

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