From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: new frame-parameter "alpha" Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 12:16:42 -0400 Message-ID: References: <4AC96E26-98BE-4142-9211-ADFEA164957B@mac.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1205943474 19161 80.91.229.12 (19 Mar 2008 16:17:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 16:17:54 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Seiji Zenitani Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 19 17:18:22 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from mail-forward.uio.no ([129.240.10.42]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Jc0yy-0002qW-6l for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 19 Mar 2008 17:17:40 +0100 Original-Received: from mail-mx8.uio.no ([129.240.10.38]) by pat.uio.no with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1Jc0yO-00048M-Qh for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 19 Mar 2008 17:17:04 +0100 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by mail-mx8.uio.no with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1Jc0yD-0005On-89 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 19 Mar 2008 17:17:04 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Jc0yA-0001a1-8p for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 19 Mar 2008 12:16:50 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Jc0y5-0001Z4-Ju for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Mar 2008 12:16:45 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Jc0y4-0001X8-03 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Mar 2008 12:16:45 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Jc0y3-0001X0-KR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Mar 2008 12:16:43 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.pppoe.ca ([206.248.154.182]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Jc0y3-0001Wc-E7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Mar 2008 12:16:43 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: ApoEANLZ4EdMCrTo/2dsb2JhbACqRYEH X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.25,525,1199682000"; d="scan'208";a="16237146" Original-Received: from smtp.pppoe.ca ([65.39.196.238]) by ironport2-out.pppoe.ca with ESMTP; 19 Mar 2008 12:16:42 -0400 Original-Received: from pastel.home ([76.10.180.232]) by smtp.pppoe.ca (Internet Mail Server v1.0) with ESMTP id ZTJ48742; Wed, 19 Mar 2008 12:16:42 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 336148168; Wed, 19 Mar 2008 12:16:42 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <4AC96E26-98BE-4142-9211-ADFEA164957B@mac.com> (Seiji Zenitani's message of "Wed, 19 Mar 2008 01:51:04 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org X-UiO-SPF-Received: Received-SPF: pass (mail-mx8.uio.no: domain of gnu.org designates 199.232.76.165 as permitted sender) client-ip=199.232.76.165; envelope-from=emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org; helo=lists.gnu.org; X-UiO-Spam-info: not spam, SpamAssassin (score=-1.0, required=5.0, autolearn=disabled, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-1) X-UiO-Scanned: C8AF4E34D75F8867E12FEBD25DDDF4449962AFEC X-UiO-SR-test: 5FD046EC5B65511AC9E1BE8AC97D6A81D550E0FD X-UiO-SPAM-Test: remote_host: 199.232.76.165 spam_score: -9 maxlevel 200 minaction 2 bait 0 mail/h: 4 total 43759 max/h 424 blacklist 0 greylist 0 ratelimit 0 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:92984 Archived-At: >> Looks good. Tho maybe I'd put the call to x_set_frame_alpha directly >> inside x_update_cursor (and rename it to x_update_cursor_and_opacity). >> >> I don't mind the use of "alpha" rather than "opacity", as long as the >> docstrings are clear. The patch needs to also update the manual. >> And could you describe the copyright status? > The frame parameter code and the x_set_frame_alpha function > were written by Ryo Yoshitake. He is ready to sign. Could you send him the appended form (and Cc me along the way)? > The lower_limit variable and the x_set_alpha function originally come from > mw32fns.c (e.g. mw32_set_frame_alpha in l.1019-1078) in Meadow, > although they look differently because of my extensive modification. > http://www.meadowy.org/meadow/browser/trunk/src/mw32fns.c (slow connection) > I am contacting Mr. Horiguchi, the author of the relevant part. Copyright only applies to actual code, not ideas, so if the code was rewritten, copyright does not apply any more. > The first version of the patch was developed by Takashi Hiromatsu. > I am waiting for his response in order to make sure. > Practically, his code in ver.1 was completely > replaced by Yoshitake-san's code (ver.2) and > my code based on Meadow (ver.3, ver.4). So it sounds like he does not hold any copyrights over the current version of the code. Is that right? > Yoichi Nakayama wrote twenty lines to improve performance, > surrounded by the following brackets. > He agreed to contribute, but he modestly described that his improvement is > "minor". Let's leave this for later. Stefan Please email the following information to assign@gnu.org, and we will send you the assignment form for your past and future changes. 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