Re: patch 1.4.5.3 --> 1.4.5.4
Brandon Beattie (bbeattie@linkexplorer.com)
Wed, 6 May 1998 16:56:21 -0600 (MDT)
I'm trying to get transparency working on the wharf and title bar. I tried
129 and 130 (and 128) with the 3dots.xpm on the wharf, but it's either
black or gray.. any ideas on whats wrong? I'm using 1.4.5/nopatch.
--Brandon
On Tue, 5 May 1998, David Mihm wrote:
> Well, not to sound ungreatful but... this is a terrible patch. Removing
> files and then re-adding the same files in the patch - what's that all
> about? And the BUGS, I guess removing the "buggy" functionality is one
> way to remove the bugs; not what I would have chosen though.
>
> As for one, the feel 130 (transparent) toggle for the menus moving to 129
> (was one pixmap entire menu). I always run my window manager and, as it
> was under 1.4.5.3 - it was buggy, but still worked! As I see it, my X is
> always up and once you went theough the motions of using:
> TextureTypes 128 128 128 128 128
> then initializing it, then going back to:
> TextureTypes 128 128 128 129 128
> then menu had the entire pixmap. The bug in this was if you
> re-initialized the look.file - it lost it and went transparent - with the
> still *unacceptible* bug of not removing the highlight when transparent!
> Personally I'd rather wait a couple weeks for a patch that fixed things
> not removed and replaced them with other still buggy functions.
>
> I've went back to using the 1.4.5.3 afterstep binary inconjunction with
> all other 1.4.5.4 binaries - if anyone else sees it as I do. All is going
> well so far.
>
> Anyway, enough of my venting - I wouldn't use anything else,
> so I'm just expressing myself - hope it wasn't taken incorrectly. :)
>
> p.s. A changelog would be nice too; sure I could just look at the patch,
> but this one made no sense....okay that file is being removed...ah,
> no...wait, it's getting added again...hmmm. :)
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