Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 13th Dec 2007 18:27 UTC, submitted by SEJeff
"GNOME theme engine designer Andrea Cimitan has implemented support for transparent widgets in the Murrine GTK theme engine, bringing Vista-like translucent glass effects to the GNOME desktop. Cimitan used RGBA colormaps to implement the feature and says that, with only 10 or 20 extra lines of code, translucency can easily be added to other theme engines that support RGBA. Cimitan says that the addition of translucency effects proves that critics of GTK are wrong. "[I]n the last week I've seen a lot of people claiming about 'lacks' of Gtk+ capabilities," wrote Cimitan in a blog entry. "Some of them still think that Gtk+ doesn't have RGBA support... Or it will require nasty hacks. This is absolutely false."
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RE[3]: GTK uses the CPU
by dylansmrjones on Sat 15th Dec 2007 14:10
in reply to "RE[2]: GTK uses the CPU"
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True, it requires a composite manager to work. They need cairo compiled with glitz to work, as it is. But without a composite manager it is just waste of good memory and harddisk space.
EDIT: And would a certain person please stop with his consistent down-modding of all my posts? (Not directed at Werecatf) -
Edited 2007-12-15 14:13 UTC
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2006-02-15
GTK+ on my machine supports 3D hardware acceleration through Cairo.
Mmmno. As much as I personally like GTK+ and Cairo I just have to correct you here: GTK+ devs have not seen it necessary to make Cairo use Glitz for rendering. As such, Cairo (when used by GTK+) does use software rendering. Even if Cairo is indeed compiled with Glitz support it still isn't used unless specified by the application/library utilizing Cairo.
Now what I would find interesting would be a benchmark between normal GTK+ vs. patched GTK+ with Glitz enabled.