From kde-devel  Mon Oct 15 19:10:17 2001
From: "Austad, Jay" <austad () marketwatch ! com>
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:10:17 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: RE: Kde3 suggestion -- alpha channel use
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Did someone actually make this work in win2k?  2 of our programmers here
were trying to make IE translucent and they both ended up having to do a
complete reinstall on their boxes because it hosed everything.  

One of the cool things about this is that it would also be a GUI enhancement
that the KDE community would beat microsoft to implementing in a useful way.


I'm using mosfet's Liquid theme (http://www.mosfet.org), and I really like
the translucent menus.  Doing this for a while app would be quite cool.

Jay

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Stidolph [mailto:dstidolph@broadjump.com] 
> Sent: Monday, October 15, 2001 2:03 PM
> To: kde-devel@kde.org
> Subject: RE: Kde3 suggestion -- alpha channel use
> 
> 
> This kind of "trick" was added to Windows 2000, but never 
> really exploited since it was ONLY available to Windows 2000 
> (might make an appearence now that XP is about to be out).
> 
> I'd love to see this available, especially if generally 
> available.  I often have to write something about another 
> program and have to switch back and forth a lot between the 
> windows (not having dual monitors). With this I can make the 
> top window translucent enough to see under it and still type. 
>  It can also be used in games - imagine a radar display for 
> example.  How about a scrolling graph, or a stock-ticker, or 
> even just sub-menus?
> 
> This is eye-candy, but can be useful eye-candy.
> 
> David Stidolph
> Austin, TX
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Austad, Jay [mailto:austad@marketwatch.com]
> Sent: Monday, October 15, 2001 1:45 PM
> To: 'kde-devel@mail.kde.org'
> Subject: Kde3 suggestion -- alpha channel use
> 
> 
> I posted this to the kde3alpha list, but I think this may be 
> a better forum for it:
> 
> The new version of QT adds hardware accelerated alpha channel 
> support. Since KDE3 will use the latest version of QT, would 
> it be possible to place a slider on the title bar of every 
> application which would allow one to change the whole app 
> from 0-100% opacity?  That way, I can sit and browse sites 
> with a semi-transparent konqueror, and still watch what is 
> going on in windows behind it.  A mod like this would be 
> sweet eye-candy, but also quite useful from a productivity 
> standpoint (since I routinely have about 20 windows open, or more).
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> ---------- 
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