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List:       kde-look
Subject:    Re: alpha-blended selections
From:       Richard Moore <rich () ipso-facto ! freeserve ! co ! uk>
Date:       2001-03-20 16:31:25
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Torsten Rahn wrote:
> 
> On Monday 19 March 2001 17:10, Richard Moore wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Huh?, Do we? Since when?

Since ages - November IIRC. It's only done this way in a few places
though (eg. blending the file type icon into the file preview).

Rich.

> 
> Greetings,
> Tackat
> 
> > 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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