Review Request: make folderview icons translucent if composite is enabled

[Aaron J. Seigo]

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this patch is a total hack. while the idea of using argb for the translucency is probably good, this patch as it is simply can not go in.

- Aaron J.


On May 28, 2011, 8:57 p.m., Mathias Stephan Panzenböck wrote:
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> (Updated May 28, 2011, 8:57 p.m.)
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> Review request for KDE Base Apps.
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> Summary
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> This patch makes dragged folderview icons translucent if composite is enabled. It is a kinda hack that uses an event filter to find Qt's D'n'D window, clears any mask on it and sets the Qt::WA_TranslucentBackground attribute. I use it day to day and it works fine.
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> The proper place to fix this would be in Qt, but they wrongfully marked the bug report as invalid, because they think X11 does not support translucent windows:
> http://bugreports.qt.nokia.com/browse/QTBUG-8519
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> This addresses bug 256475.
>     http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=256475
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>   plasma/applets/folderview/iconview.h 4d736c5 
>   plasma/applets/folderview/iconview.cpp 206aff7 
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> Diff: http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/101463/diff
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> Testing
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> Thanks,
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> Mathias Stephan
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