From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Support for background transparency Date: Thu, 04 Nov 2021 22:06:18 +0200 Message-ID: <83mtmjeldx.fsf@gnu.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="34641"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?H=E5kon?= Flatval Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 04 21:07:22 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mij18-0008q7-9w for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 04 Nov 2021 21:07:22 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50900 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mij17-0004Ve-4A for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 04 Nov 2021 16:07:21 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:33032) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mij0D-0003Wf-VT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Nov 2021 16:06:25 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:54924) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mij0D-0005p8-9T; Thu, 04 Nov 2021 16:06:25 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=MIME-version:References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From: Date; bh=bO4Dkq94giyFmEr1W75g0Gc7eLUaSrOQu5191kDw+hA=; b=EBSnqY8sUvs/TJRHkW8B riOERJL02pn0Q9eOqwPz/TcRBxYUHQij11/TYcWu8mPZgcDYDUff65sDl4GIgM/ppxAy/MsWYluaf aTuAh+04suK85arY/o7Vct8EqEMLY2RIiJthsbdnS2oDKwywClNMlUsILdW7guAcRbw7Tt1zctQ3c Al7A532xCZP5EWNT2ga+zA7l6wgMwzrGzkq2pFGQBH4iX1S+XOtck+1UlTTcpFp1WxpV9yO1MeVt+ PqIOcNL4c/o7dE6uBD4ws0VbaKMssyiyI5Tq3+8joalBC5rFT4fnFB2joJNrxR1adKLURXbf7Odhg NcPZlFwXKwdpvQ==; Original-Received: from [87.69.77.57] (port=1822 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mij0C-0005mK-PB; Thu, 04 Nov 2021 16:06:25 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from =?iso-8859-1?Q?H=E5kon?= Flatval on Thu, 4 Nov 2021 19:45:03 +0000) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:278714 Archived-At: > From: Håkon Flatval > Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2021 19:45:03 +0000 > > I have implemented partial support for background transparency in Emacs. The fork, including a description > in the README can be found at https://github.com/TheVaffel/emacs. This implementation has only been > made for Xlib+gtk3+cairo builds. > > After posting about this in the Emacs subreddit > (https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/qm3tsv/i_implemented_partial_support_for_background/), it > appears to me that this is a feature that is of interest to many Emacs users. > > To start off, I would just like to feel the attitude towards this feature among other Emacs developers. In > general, are there any with strong opinions in favor or against this feature? > > As I'm completely new to the community, I'd also like some input as to how one proceeds with planning and > implementation given there is interest for this to be made reality. I would be happy to work on this, but not > sure I feel comfortable / knowledgable enough to do everything on my own. Thanks, I suggest to begin by sending the changes as one or more patches with "M-x report-emacs-bug", so that we could review and discuss the changes on our issue tracker.