Talk:Pseudo-transparency

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[edit] History lesson

"Traditionally, the X Window System has lagged behind other windowing systems in adding purely eye candy or aesthetic features, such as window translucency. This has encouraged client developers to develop hacks (cunning workarounds) to overcome this limitation."

What? Its going to be hard to prove this and I just wrote to Rob to see if I could get a copy of the screenshot. But from my point of view, this whole transparency thing started when Rob Malda tricked people into thinking he had made his rxvt program have a transparent background. This was back in about 1997 or so. This of course led to people getting excited and making a version of rxvt that did do pseudo-transparency. And then other programs caught on. Then of course there is Enlightenment. But being only a beginning Linux user back in 1997 and still using Windows a lot, I'd say that X windows was where a lot of the cutting edge eye candy stuff was happening at the time, and some Windows programmers just followed suit later. -- Suso (talk) 01:01, 20 March 2008 (UTC)