[haiku-development] Re: Offscreen and onscreen views

François Revol wrote:

it planned to add alpha transparency to the windowing system?  (Not
for R1, obviously, but in the future.)
There is no compelling reason appart eye candy, and that's not something we really push for.
Most of the times is just used for eye candy, but there are a lot of possibilities to use it in a more productive way, like some Mac apps do. 
One just need to go above the usual "square boxes" way to imagine a GUI.

It's funny how in Vista, transparency is used in the worst possible ways...
Possibly a rendering backend using accelerated OpenGL would allow that in the future...
This is definitively the future. If you dig a bit into OSX' APIs, you see the possibilities are endless. 



Regards,

Gabriele

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