Re: Changes 2009-07-15/16 in branch?

[Clifford Wulfman]

Richard Stallman <rms <at> 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.)