2009/10/29 Moritz Wilhelmy <c...@wzff.de>: > On Wed, Oct 07, 2009 at 12:15:37PM +0200, Richard Pöttler wrote: >> What do you think about transparency? I think it might collide with the >> suckless-goal and decrease speed. > > Not only do they decrease speed and add lots of unneccessary lines of code > but also transparency makes the content unreadable and disturbs from reading > the window content. > Example: > http://xinutec.org/~pippijn/files/img/collection/why-transparency-is-evil.jpg > > So, I agree with uriel: transparency is for idiots.
When I was young I thought hey that looks cool (compared to the usual terminals on Windows by that time). But when actually using it for a while it hurts more and the coolness factor becomes obsolete sooner than later. Perhaps the younger generation has better eyes and can cope with it for a couple of years, but I haven't seen any serious programmer that worked with translucent terminals very long... Apart from that, all the other reasons (unnecessary complexity, unnecessary cpu cycles, etc) are true and I agree. Kind regards, Anselm
