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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Kicker/Taskbar: Mouseover effect
From:       "Gary L. Greene Jr." <greeneg () arklinux ! org>
Date:       2005-04-16 18:46:10
Message-ID: 200504161846.13921.greeneg () arklinux ! org
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On Saturday 16 April 2005 10:31 pm, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> On Saturday 16 April 2005 03:52, Hans Oischinger wrote:
> > I'm just not sure if grabWindow is really what we want to use. I would
> > prefer a solution based on Composite, however this is still a little
> > problematic due to availability reasons.
>
> yes, i'd like to see a composite based solution as well. and i have NO
> problem with non-essential features that are only available in kicker if
> you have COMPOSITE.
>
> to me it's the same as colour depth: if you don't have a display that can
> do anything over 8bit colour, you don't get to see all the pretty colours.
> likewise, if you don't have COMPOSITE, you won't get transparency and
> features like the screen grabs in kicker.
>
> what i'm saying is don't let COMPOSITE not being everywhere stop you =)
>
> in fact, if we use COMPOSITE in compelling ways i think that's the best way
> to help it propagate. =)

This also may force the guys on the X.org team working on XCOMPOSITE to make 
it less buggy too (due to bug reports and usage) :P I'd love to use composite 
on my box but it's far too unstable at this time for me to use.

-- 
Gary L. Greene, Jr.
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