Re: transperancy.

[Ross Burton <ross burtonini com>]

On Sat, 2002-04-13 at 06:48, Dave Bordoley wrote:
> I found this kde screenshot and was wondering how they did that multi
> level true transperancy, as i was under the impression that this was not
> currently possible in X. Is it just a bad hack? Curious cuz it's really
> cool looking, and it would be awesome if we could add that type of
> transperancy to the gnome 2.2 or 2.4 menus.

As far as I know, the Qt3 theme engines do the usual hack of grabbing an
image of the desktop below and blending it as usual. The good
improvement that gnome-terminal needs is including the windows and
icons, not just the root window.

Of course, I may be wrong...

Ross
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