transparency - the real thing

[Jack Coates]

On Mon, 2003-08-04 at 21:25, Net Llama! wrote:
> A coworker just got a sexy new Mac Powerbook, and had me drooling over how 
> gorgeous the entire OSX UI is.  But what really blew me away was the fact 
> that OSX can do _real_ window transparency, like this:
> 
> http://osx.hyperjeff.net/Showcase/screen_shots/03.28.CocoaNTerminal.jpg
> 
> That means that every window can be transparent to whatever is behind it. 
> Not just the (now) cheap hacks that we see with linux terms, where you get 
> the background image, and nothing else.
> 
> Or maybe someone can prove me wrong.  Is there linux functionality that 
> will give me true transparency?

If so, I hope it can be turned off. That is sexy in a look-ma-no-hands
kind of way, but the background hack remains usable. Text superimposed
over an image is readable -- text superimposed over other text is not.
-- 
Jack Coates
Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture...