Re: [E-devel] [OT] Object Desktop history

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On Sun, 25 May 2003 15:18:12 CDT, Lyle Kempler <te...@tw...>  said:

> I have never agreed with this. If you apply some rule of opacity for
> each window section back from the front a section is, eventually it is
> only apparent there's more content behind it, but it's blurry or
> otherwise not text-like enough that it's in the way.

Well, yeah. *SURE* if the system puts its foot down and says "the
alpha can't be less than 0.85" it works.  That's policy though. ;)

> In my opinion, the need for raster to write these APIs in part stems
> from a culture surrounding X that we can't deem outdated features or
> architecture as such and perform real innovation. Maybe I'm alone in
> that view, but it is a view I have.

There's a hell of a lot to be said for backward compatibility.

You can take an X11 application from Solaris to Linux to Tru64 to AIX,
even if you do have to port some libraries first.

Now try porting your Berlin application to anything else.  Or port
anything else to Berlin. :)