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List:       kde-look
Subject:    Re: alpha-blended selections
From:       Richard Moore <rich () ipso-facto ! freeserve ! co ! uk>
Date:       2001-03-19 16:10:39
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Stephan Heigl wrote:
> 
> what about alpha-blended selctions like in rastermans e17? looks quite
> good.
> Yes, i know this takes CPU power...and doesnt have any (direct)
> influence on productivity...but it looks good.

Actually we can hand the alpha blending off to the hardware
in your graphics card thanks to Keith Packard's X extensions.
We already do this for blending icons. It's only h/w accelerated
for some card right now though.

Rich.

> 
> http://www.us.rasterman.com/pages/e17/e17_selection.png
> 
> regards
> 
> stephan

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     Richard Moore		rich@ipso-facto.freeserve.co.uk
http://developer.kde.org/	rich@kde.org

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