From kde-devel  Mon Oct 15 21:47:38 2001
From: Andrew Sutton <ansutton () sep ! com>
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 21:47:38 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Re: Kde3 suggestion -- alpha channel use
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On Monday 15 October 2001 16:07, Neil Stevens wrote:
> 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.

or you could get really creative and hack the qt core to provide widget level 
transparency options. lets see... make the widget transparent, so all 
children would probably take the transparency of the parent (or would they?). 
it can't be too hard ;)

Andrew Sutton
ansutton@sep.com
 
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