On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 3:30 PM, Anselm R Garbe <ans...@garbe.us> wrote: > 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
If you need the transparency, there are compositing window managers that will do perfect transparency for any application you would like to. Even if you *would* like to see everything at once, there's no need to bloat down each application with it. // Anders
