From kde-devel  Sat Jul 28 16:06:17 2001
From: David Watson <dgwatson () kent ! edu>
Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2001 16:06:17 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Re: Transparent Window Moves
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-devel&m=99633653914543

On Saturday 28 July 2001 06:05 am, Benjamin Ellis wrote:
> After playing with the MegaGradient style I have been wondering what would
> have to be done to implement transparent window moves, as seen in
> Enlightenment, with the same same mechanism that the MegaGradient style
> uses for transparency.
>
> Has anyone tried coding something like this in?

All of the "transparent" stuff I've seen (with the exception of stuff using 
the X RENDER extension) are just hacks. They take a snapshot of the screen 
below, and draw on top of that. It's not really good for anything but 
backgrounds, because it doesn't update when the windows behind it are updated.
 
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