From mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Mon Aug 23 16:42:47 2010 X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at pp.htv.fi From: Eero Tamminen Organization: Koti To: mint@lists.fishpool.fi Subject: Re: [MiNT] MiNT +problem with background in Teradesk Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 23:40:55 +0300 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 References: <989716.515035497-sendEmail@descaro> In-Reply-To: <989716.515035497-sendEmail@descaro> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <201008232340.55148.oak@helsinkinet.fi> X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Errors-to: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi X-original-sender: oak@helsinkinet.fi Precedence: bulk List-help: List-unsubscribe: List-Id: X-List-ID: List-subscribe: List-owner: List-post: Hi, On Monday 23 August 2010, Helmut Karlowski wrote: > But I wonder why this is so important - there are lots of other things > waiting to be fixed/implemented. Is there any famous GUI that implements > this? I only know GEM ;-) I don't think anything implements it generically, but there are several applications that support such things and skins in general. Nowadays window translucency is the hot thing though, but compositing takes a lot of memory and slows down things a lot (to use a modern composited desktop, 1/2GB is minimum and 1-2GB of RAM recommended). IMHO background images for windows are a horrible idea. It makes the window content mostly unreadable, and doesn't help with performance or memory usage either. - Eero