From kde-devel  Mon Oct 15 21:07:20 2001
From: Neil Stevens <neil () qualityassistant ! com>
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 21:07:20 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Re: Kde3 suggestion -- alpha channel use
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-devel&m=100318031420519

On Monday October 15, 2001 11:44, Austad, Jay wrote:
> 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.

...for QPixmaps, with the only API for accessing transparency in QCanvas.

> 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? 

If every application used QCanvasItems instead of QWidgets, then maybe.

-- 
Neil Stevens
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