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List:       kwin
Subject:    Re: Color Filter plugin
From:       Sebastian Kuegler <sebas () kde ! org>
Date:       2008-01-28 19:20:26
Message-ID: 200801282020.26450.sebas () kde ! org
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On Thursday 24 January 2008 22:18:48 Lubos Lunak wrote:
>  some for I-know-fragment-shaders people I guess :) . Today I noticed one
> user in one forum asking if it's possible somehow to have one window on top
> of another one, with the top one having background transparent, so that the
> user could work in the top one while reading text from the bottom one.
> Where the point is that only the background should be transparent, since
> making the whole window transparent makes it less readable.
>
>  Would it be possible to extend Invert to make arbitrary color conversions,
> including changing the alpha channel (i.e. something like
> http://wiki.compiz-fusion.org/Plugins/Colorfilter)?

Konsole is doing this, no? (Although it's at an application level.) But it 
certainly works nicely, transparant background, opaque text on top of it.

Filtering out the backgroundcolor sounds quite hackish to me.
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sebas

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