From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Clifford Wulfman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Changes 2009-07-15/16 in branch? Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 18:41:53 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <4A692E0A.9060108@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1248721061 28375 80.91.229.12 (27 Jul 2009 18:57:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 18:57:41 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 27 20:57:34 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MVVO6-0002J1-6E for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 27 Jul 2009 20:57:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:33113 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MVVO5-0003eH-P0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 27 Jul 2009 14:57:29 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MVVLu-0002r6-8Y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Jul 2009 14:55:14 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MVVLp-0002qP-7M for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Jul 2009 14:55:14 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=35052 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MVVLp-0002qM-3T for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Jul 2009 14:55:09 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:52930 helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MVVLo-0006Ed-Fo for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Jul 2009 14:55:08 -0400 Original-Received: from root by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1MVVLi-00012D-ES for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Jul 2009 18:55:02 +0000 Original-Received: from hagen.Princeton.EDU ([128.112.202.26]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 27 Jul 2009 18:55:02 +0000 Original-Received: from cwulfman by hagen.Princeton.EDU with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 27 Jul 2009 18:55:02 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 15 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-Loom-IP: 128.112.202.26 (Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.1.1) Gecko/20090715 Firefox/3.5.1) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:113247 Archived-At: Richard Stallman gnu.org> writes: > > What I'm concerning about with respect to the GNU policy is the > "alpha-component" (or maybe "alpha-channel" is more familiar) support, > which was added only for Cocoa. Alpha-component/alpha-channel > controls translucency of colors by specifying how opaque it is. > > Is this a feature users might actually want to use? > I don't see what it is good for. > Can someone explain what a user might want to do with this? > > I use this feature all the time on my laptop to enable me to see what's underneath my editing window (a manual page, some data I'm transcribing, etc.)