Re: [Texmacs-dev] alpha-transparency

[Alvaro Tejero Cantero]

Is there any reason not to use the QT GUI everywhere? Any architecture
that supports X11 but not QT?

-á.



On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 11:33, Norbert Nemec <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> it was mentioned before that alpha-transparency should be addressed in
> TeXmacs. Apart from X11, all other GUIs should support this in a
> straightforward way. Is there any idea, how it could be added to the GUI
> abstraction in the cleanest way so that TeXmacs graphics could begin making
> use of it?
>
> Specifically, it would be essential for the table border hints that I
> attempted to implement a while ago. Currently, the hints are opaque
> light-gray and get in the way for equations where the content often extends
> over the cell boundaries. Putting the hints in the background behind the
> content was not a solution either, because nested tables would then cover
> the hints of inner tables by the background color of outer tables.
>
> The most difficult issue for extending the GUI abstraction seems to be a
> fallback solution for the X11 GUI and possibly other that do not offer alpha
> transparency. Once alpha transparency is used for anything essential in
> TeXmacs, these GUIs would become unusable.
>
> Is it time to drop the X11 GUI? Or at least accept that future versions will
> make it less and less usable as alpha transparency is being used for more
> and more features in TeXmacs? It could still be included as legacy code, but
> I believe it will slow down the development of TeXmacs in general if every
> piece of code is restricted to the limitations of the X11 GUI.
>
> Greetings,
> Norbert
>
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