[Gllug] Transparent Terminal

[Nix]

On Mon, 6 Dec 2004, Ashley Evans moaned:
> On Sunday 05 December 2004 23:37, Nix wrote:
>> Indeed, but alas, KDE doesn't use the compositing extension yet, and
>> there are as far as I know no halfway-stable compositing managers
>> anyway. (KDE and GNOME will probably end up providing their own.)
> 
> Let's all hope and pray that they develop a nice clean, portable* 
> implementation that can be shared between not only GNOME and KDE but other 
> projects too....

I doubt that. The interaction with the compositing extension is likely
to take place partially in the toolkit/widget set, just as the
interaction with most other X extensions does.

So the KDE (Qt) and GNOME (Gtk) implementations are likely to be
separate. Qt and Gtk are just too different.

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