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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Transparent Window Moves
From:       Benjamin Ellis <zerovoid () indifference ! org>
Date:       2001-07-29 19:46:27
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> > > > > 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.
>
> Doesn't Enlightenment do it by showing the content of the window
> checkered instead of opaq:
>
> TOTOTOTO
> OTOTOTOT
> TOTOTOTO
> OTOTOTOT
>
> T: Fully Transparent pixel
> O: Fully Opaq Pixel.
>
> Of course this is cheating but the result was quite nice.
>

I think you're right about the way E does it... It would be nice to see 
someone hack it into KWin with that method or the render extension.  I would 
do it but I'm not familiar enough with kwin or the render extension.

> Last time I saw it it worked that way - I remember that Matthias Ettrich
> showed me KWin using this methon two years ago at the KDE TWO -meeting.
>
> Greetings,
> Tackat
>
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