[Appeal] Translucency effect

[Aaron Seigo]

On April 12, 2005 10:56, Hans Oischinger wrote:
> When you hover over a taskbutton in the taskbar all windows (except the one
> under the mouse pointer) are faded to opacity 15. That makes hidden windows
> visible. The effect is undone when the mouse leaves the taskbar.

ah, ok.. cool... what's the delay on hover? i suppose i can see that when i 
see your patch =)

what happens when you mouse over a set of grouped windows? do they all stay 
opaque?

do toolboxes and windows (transient-for windows) remain opaque? because it 
would be nice if you moused over a gimp picture and the picture and all the 
toolboxes showed opaque.

btw, something i don't want to happen with kicker is now that we have these 
cool new toys to play with that we start applying them randomly. i'd like to 
have some "rules" that we can follow so things are consistent. e.g. when to 
use transparency, at what levels and what those levels mean.

and we do need to completely redo the transparency in kicker. completely. rip 
out the old crap and replace it with proper COMPOSITE support, so that the 
background of kicker is translucent, but things like icons remain opaque.

> it's against libtaskbar (and libtaskmanger, but maybe not in a final
> version if continue to work on it)... just a few lines of code until now.

i'll be looking for the patch =)

-- 
Aaron J. Seigo
Society is Geometric
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