Gaijin, le Wed 20 Jan 2010 11:11:07 -0800, a ?crit : > On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 06:10:22AM -0600, Chris Brannon wrote: > > The X-window system only offers low-level abstractions. It concerns > > itself with the rendering of bitmapped images on graphical devices. > > So, you're saying that the information X.org is receiving from, > say, X-Chat is all graphical information? That's it. As I said in another post, that wasn't the plan originally, but it ended up being much more flexible to do it that way. > Whoever came up with that idea for how to do things must be a > brain-dead moron, because working with themes must be beyond > hope where beauty is concerned. I used to love working with > semi-transparent backgrounds, etc. Err, that's precisely because you want all kinds of effects and such that keeping the text in the protocol was being more and more a problem. You don't have the freedom to do whatever you want to your text rendering when you're bound to a protocol. Samuel
