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Fast Alpha-Blending In Your GUI
visnu writes: "I've been waiting for this for 2 years now -- a REAL glass-like windowing system. And yes, it's Microsoft to do it. Ever since W2k came out, and they included alpha-blending in the GDI, I was tempted to write a little tool to turn on any window's transparency, but of course I'm way too lazy to do that. These guys weren't though: glass2k runs in the systray and handles turning on any window's transparency. yes, here's a screenshot. I'm not too sure about the speed in W2k, but in XP w/ the newest Nvidia drivers and a somewhat recent video card, it's hardware accelerated, and yes, you should be drooling." Update: 11/26 19:00 GMT by T : Links updated, so hopefully you'll be able to actually get to the content again :)
Teryl Rothery is my Queen, and I want all the world to know of her immense beauty.
Also, the site is kinda slow on its own, so it's not necessarily getting slashdotted.
Excite personals classifieds adult slide show running under a transparent slashdot... Life is so good!
If voting were effective, it would be illegal by now.
Well said, sir! MOD PARENT UP! Slashdot. News for Nerds. Stuff that Matters.
...as long as it's pro-linux and anti-government.
She is pretty damn hot,
In the Home Improvement Mom kind of way.
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Ursula Andress, Catherine Deneuve, and Charo, twice...
that skank whore Patricia Richardson can't hold a candle to my sweet Teryl!
Something as big as the boy-scouts deciding to ban homosexuals gets submitted and ignored, while some hokey looking window manager feature gets its story put up?
Thats pretty pathetic.
Why stick up for big business?
You, sir, need to replace your fucking video drivers with the non-pussy variety.
Drooling? The kind of drooling you do when someone hits you on the head with a basebat and you can't see straight and everything seems smudged together.
So you can open more porn simultaneously?
Geez, I hadn't thought of that...I'm off to get it now!
The picture of that guy is pretty bad, but disastrous?
Well, now that I got a good look I can see your point. I don't want that on my screen, ever.
Arg! Sorry, should have used preview...
-Kevin
Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park (slightly mangled - the inference in the original is 'genetic engineers'). In the film, this was a Jeff Goldblum line. And from recent ad campaigns, he's a man who knows his alpha-channeled OS.
The only thing you can accurately describe as "Scotch" is a sticky tape made by 3M. And it's
[...] X11 can't [...]
*buzz* -- wrong. see the comment someone posted an hour and twenty-five minutes before you posted that troll (and somehow got it modded up as insightful), which points out that X11 *can* do this.
Now, taking the troll bait: regarding your criticisms of X11, time and again it has been shown that those things that you consider "bloat" are actually real feautures useful to people who do real work, unlike, say, alpha-blending eye candy, to which no one seems to think is worth devoting too much time.
-- The_Messenger (Troll Extraordinaire)