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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: True transparency ala MacOSX
From:       Ralf Nolden <nolden () kde ! org>
Date:       2003-03-14 11:18:34
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On Freitag, 14. März 2003 03:24, Mosfet wrote:
> Currently it's not possible, but it's being worked on.
>
> Right now there are two psudeo-transparencies available. The first type is
> in Konsole. This isn't really psudeo-transparency, it's the wallpaper at
> konsole's current position. KDE can share the wallpaper pixmap with other
> applications via KSharedPixmap.

Why didn't kicker use that already ? Or is there something that I missed to 
make kicker transparent ?

Ralf

>
> The other type of psudeo-transparency is the type originally provided by my
> styles and is now part of KDE. What this does is it grabs the area of the
> desktop before showing a popupmenu. This means you get the underlying
> windows and icons, not just the wallpaper. But it has no way to see if the
> windows underneath have been modified so is only useful for situations
> where the window isn't likely to be moved and is only shown for a short
> time. This is why it is only used in popup menus.
>
> The real solution is something Keith Packard was working on a long time ago
> but seems to have dropped for the time being - a translucency server. What
> this would do is provide a server for sharing X Render drawables across
> applications. This would allow you to blend different windows from
> different applications efficently - catching all updates and exposures -
> something you can't currently do.
>
> This was planned like two years ago but first he decided to redo font
> handling and is now working on graphics primitives for XRender AFAIK.
> Really, I doubt eye-candy features are high on his priority list. He posted
> screenshots of it and TWM a long time ago but refused to release the code
> for it.
>
> On Thursday 13 March 2003 8:08 pm, Matt Rogers wrote:
> ...snip...
>
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