Thread: Kate Alhola's Maemo Presentation
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2009-04-13 , 21:51
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Originally Posted by GeraldKo View Post
Sounds like practically everything is a compositing window manager these days, from my ignorant reading of the Wikipedia article. Isn't the current Maemo a compositing window manager, too?
Someone please correct me if I'm wrong or inaccurate, but I'm gonna give it a shot anyway.

Maemo's window manager, Matchbox, is not a compositing window manager, but you can still play low-level bixbuf transparency games because GTK has pixbuf composite functions (alpha channel and opacity support). Notice when you move the home applets around that they are opaque till you place them. The application framework makes them transparent, not the window manager.
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