Hi, lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Olivier) writes: > not start as in code, but start as in functionality > we're talking about a feature request since 2002: > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=93360 Oh, this request is much older. It's been in the early TODOs, so it's probably around for six or seven years. > some people indeed prefer darkened, but as long as nobody is working > on that, would black be useful instead of darkened? I do think > so. It is currently not about the choice between darkened and black, > but between nothing and black (unless somebody steps up to implement > 'darkened'). Well, I doubt that black is useful at all and it would certainly look ugly. But I have thought about it more and I think I see a way to implement darkening based on your approach of drawing the outside area in black. So your change would probably be a start regardless of what I said earlier. In order to undraw the black you've drawn on top of the image display, you will have to expose that area using gimp_display_shell_expose_area(). Sven
