Re: [rox-users] Re: rox-filer transparency

[Lucas H. <luc...@di...>]

On Mon, 07 Feb 2005 11:15:51 +0000
Dominic <lsd...@nt...> wrote:

> Alex Kloss wrote:
> > On Sun, 06 Feb 2005 17:28:49 +0000
> 
> > Hi, Dom!
> > 
> > Pseudo-transparency (or even real transparency) should be not too
> > difficult, but is not what I should call useful functionality. It's
> > the kind of eyecandy that tends to get in the way, makes it harder
> > to read the text and/or recognize the icons. One of the rare real
> > useful uses of transparency could be within a window manager to make
> > unused windows transparent, so they don't block other windows from
> > sight.
> 
> But with some light shading I would be able to see my beautiful 
> background underneath, plus I'm sure there's a handful of people like
> me  who like eye-candy (without resorting to bloat).  And it could be 
> optional at compile time anyway.  If i had any idea where to start I'd
> 
> add it in myself, can't be too difficult... :S
> 

If you want rox to have optional transparency, you would have a better
chance making some noise on the gtk mailing lists. To do this natively
in rox would require a new widget class. If you use devilspie and are
using the Xcomposite extension you can do this already. The latest
version has a set opacity option.

-- 
Lucas Hazel <lu...@di...>
Student, BSDfreak

University of New England (http://cs.une.edu.au)
Armidale, Australia 

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