From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Masatake YAMATO Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: alpha support for colors Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2012 14:07:10 +0900 (JST) Organization: Red Hat Japan, Inc. Message-ID: <20121030.140710.2236280562288616966.yamato@redhat.com> References: <87wqy8n2tk.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1351573637 523 80.91.229.3 (30 Oct 2012 05:07:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2012 05:07:17 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: aaditya@sood.net.in Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 30 06:07:26 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TT42u-0005Hc-Tk for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 30 Oct 2012 06:07:25 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38857 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TT42m-0008Jl-HE for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 30 Oct 2012 01:07:16 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:48345) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TT42k-0008Jc-4c for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Oct 2012 01:07:14 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TT42j-0000QH-5m for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Oct 2012 01:07:14 -0400 Original-Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:17788) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TT42i-0000QD-UA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Oct 2012 01:07:13 -0400 Original-Received: from int-mx12.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx12.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.25]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id q9U57B14008512 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Tue, 30 Oct 2012 01:07:11 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (dhcp-193-19.nrt.redhat.com [10.64.193.19]) by int-mx12.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id q9U57AD6010702; Tue, 30 Oct 2012 01:07:10 -0400 In-Reply-To: X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.68 on 10.5.11.25 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 209.132.183.28 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:154582 Archived-At: Hi, Nothing to do with faces but it is nice if a popup menu can be rendered in translucent. Just request:-P Masatake YAMATO > Chong Yidong gnu.org> writes: > >> >> aaditya sood sood.net.in> writes: >> >> > Does emacs support alpha blending on colors on faces? In particular >> > can I specify colors in ARGB format? >> >> No. > > Ok, I guess my googling wasn't in vain. > > Are people interested in this capability? I'm interested in working on this > feature, with (hopefully) some guidance from emacs developers. > > If I wanted to start work on it: > > 1. Where should I begin? > 2. Is it even do-able in terms of complexity, or will it touch the fabled and > scary redisplay engine? > > What do people think? > > I've have some experience with C and elisp, but mostly an emacs user > till date. Perhaps my chance to contribute back. > > regards > -- > aaditya > > > >