From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Aleksandar Dimitrov <mail@aleks.bg>
Cc: luangruo@yahoo.com, 70697@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#70697: 30.0.50; Frame parameter alpha-background is ignored for fringe bitmaps & internal borders
Date: Sat, 01 Jun 2024 17:03:38 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86y17ooj45.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86eda1kf2w.fsf@NOAH310-L.mail-host-address-is-not-set> (message from Aleksandar Dimitrov on Thu, 16 May 2024 16:26:47 +0200)
Ping! Can we make some further progress with this issue?
> From: Aleksandar Dimitrov <mail@aleks.bg>
> Date: Thu, 16 May 2024 16:26:47 +0200
> CC: eliz@gnu.org, 70697@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> Hello Po Lu,
>
> > This has been previously reported. As I've stated on those occasions
> > and numerous others, the internal border is a _border_, a natural
> > component of a frame's foreground that should not be affected by its
> > background transparency properties.
>
> Thanks for your feedback. I didn't find any previous discussions, but I
> guess I didn't look hard enough, sorry for that. Is there another way to
> create insets in Emacs that does respect transparency settings? Or is
> there a way to tweak the frame border's transparency settings that
> doesn't also affect the rendered text and other interactive elements?
>
> What I'm looking for is to distance the text somewhat from the edge of
> the frame to create some negative space.
>
> > As regards fringe bitmaps, they respond to alpha-background on the
> > XRender builds. This (untested) patch might extend this to Cairo
> > builds:
>
> Thanks for the patch. I applied it to the current Emacs (on top of
> 407b88333) and came to the following conclusion:
>
> When compiling Emacs with --with-toolkit=lucid, the above patch
> works. Fringe bitmaps' backgrounds are now transparent.
> As before, the internal borders aren't transparent.
>
> When compiling Emacs instead with --with-pgtk, the above patch *does not
> work*. However, the internal frame borders *are* transparent there
> now. I haven't yet investigated whether that was always the case (and I
> simply hadn't compiled Emacs correctly before) or whether that change
> came in recently.
>
> I guess the behaviour (whatever it ends up being) should be consistent across toolkits.
>
> Thanks,
> Aleks
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-06-01 14:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-05-01 10:52 bug#70697: 30.0.50; Frame parameter alpha-background is ignored for fringe bitmaps & internal borders Aleksandar Dimitrov
2024-05-09 7:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-05-09 8:03 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-05-16 14:26 ` Aleksandar Dimitrov
2024-06-01 14:03 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2024-06-01 14:07 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-06-03 20:24 ` Aleksandar Dimitrov
2024-06-15 8:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-06-15 11:20 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-06-27 7:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
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