[Appeal] Translucency effect

[Frank Karlitschek]

Hi Hans,

wow. This feature is very useful and pretty.
I owe you a beer. :-)

Cheers
Frank


On Tuesday 12 April 2005 08:19, Hans Oischinger wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I already talked to some of you in Berlin about a little translucency
> effect that I wanted to implement. But before checking it into kdecvs (and
> being flamed for that by many people, I suppose) I'd rather like to discuss
> it here.
>
> There are two videos online that show the effect (captured with xvidcap):
> http://home.degnet.de/hans.oischinger/exposite1.avi
> http://home.degnet.de/hans.oischinger/exposite2.avi
>
> It may still need some improvements like longer delays between hovering
> over the taskbar and showing the effect, but I think you'll get the point.
>
> I would be happy if you could give me some feedback about it. Although the
> people I showed it to until now were all quite impressed, I'm not sure if
> it's something that a user wants to see longer than some days (it will be
> an option anyway).
> But on the other hand, after a while, I switched off the new kicker
> tooltips (which I liked a lot at first), too. Sorry Aaron :)
>
> I would also like to know if it's something positive or negative from a
> usability pov. On the one hand it gives you visual access to hidden windows
> but on the other hand it may also be a little distracting.
>
> Greets, Hans

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Frank Karlitschek
karlitschek at kde.org