Re: Pre-multiplied alpha

[Adam Fedor]

On Friday, December 12, 2003, at 01:26 AM, stefan@wms-network.de wrote:

> Hi,
>
> <snip>
>
> > I'm not really sure what back-xlib does; its compositing code seems to
> > be uncertain about whether the internal buffers have premultiplied 
> > alpha
> > or not, so the end result is messed up no matter what kind of data I
> > give it.
> <snip>
> this brings one (hertical) questions up to my mind:
> why are there to two backends (art and xlib-only) for x11 and not just
> art? It seems to me that art has no further dependencies so making
> it a requirement for gnustep shouldn't be a problem?
No, it requires libart2, freetype and also a font package. Those are 
all freely available but not installed by default on many machines.

I wouldn't mind making it the default backend though (switching back to 
xlib if the required packages aren't available).