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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: [PATCH] Transparency support and bugfixes
From:       Timothy Whitfield <timothy () datasync ! com>
Date:       1999-02-22 18:30:04
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I am no QT expert, I just thought I saw it somewhere. 
I am QT newbie, just can't keep my mouth shut when I should. =)

Timothy

On Mon, 22 Feb 1999, Geert Jansen wrote:

> Timothy,
> 
> > I may be misunderstanding here, because I have only read part of the
> > conversation, but are we talking about loading the desktop background from
> > a file?  What is wrong with real transparency?  It seems that we should be
> > able to tell the background to redraw a certain segment of itself, and if
> > I am not mistaken QWidget already has support for transparency.
> > 
> > Hint. Hint. I would love to see transparency and/or background selection
> > in kvt/konsole.
> 
> Yes you are correct. I was talking about reading the desktop background
> from a file.
> I don't think Qt (1.x) supports transparent windows. A quick grep trough
> the html documentation:
> 
> /usr/local/qt/$ grep transparent *.html
> t14.html:widget. Since widgets cannot be transparent, we have to
> 
> Are you taking about Qt 2.0? I must admit I'm no Qt expert, though. Does
> anyone know if real transparency is, in principle, possible ? And how about
> effects? Would that be possible?
> 
> Cheers,
> --
>     Geert Jansen,                                email: <geertj@stack.nl>
>     (future) Phylosopher and Physicist             PGP key ID: 0xD2B5E7CE
> 

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