[Appeal] Translucency: Second try

[Torsten Rahn]

Am Mittwoch, 20. April 2005 00:11 schrieb Frank Karlitschek:
> On Tuesday 19 April 2005 08:50, Hans Oischinger wrote:
> > There are some reasons why the former effect is not very usefull
> > Most of all: Transparent windows look stupid if there are many stacked
> > onto each other and especially if they contain lots of text. The result
> > is just confusing.
> > Thorsten suggested to show all windows composited together and then made

Torsten ;-)

> > However I created the most cool effect yesterday. I really fell in love
> > with it and played with it over and over again because it looked so cool

I fell in love, too. 8-)

> > and looks much better on my machine.

Even better?

> > A drawback is that the "move out of the desktop" animation is done
> > through XMoveWindow() calls and therefore hits the CPU (just like
> > dragging a window with the mouse). That means that it may not be smooth
> > on slower machines, but which slower machines have COMPOSITE anyway?

right!

> > If we don't include it on the taskbar we could at least use it for our
> > "Show desktop" function.

It's awesome. Please commit.


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        Torsten Rahn

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