[kde-linux] Transparency and "Neffscape"

[giuseppe gran]

2007/11/15, david <gnome at hawaii.rr.com>:
> Anne Wilson wrote:
> > On Thursday 15 November 2007 14:19:14 giuseppe gran wrote:
> >> 2007/11/15, david <gnome at hawaii.rr.com>:
> >>> giuseppe gran wrote:
> >>>> Hi there,
> >>>> i would like to know if on KDE 4 there will be this effect:
> >>>> http://marco.boneff.ch/blog/?p=446
> >>>> I hope yes :)
> >>> What effect?
> >> The trasparency of the application (and K Menu) panel, like in windows
> >> vista... do you know if KDE's developers are including this effect?
> >
> > Wouldn't know anything about 'in Vista', but I did use some transparency (in
> > KDE 3.5) which I think was set by kcontrol > Desktop > Window Behavior >
> > Translucency.  I quickly switched it off, though, as it seemed to use a fair
> > amount of resources.
>
> I wouldn't know about it in Vista, either, but I've seen it in KDE
> before and really hate it. It makes screens much harder to read and
> really slows down the system. (At least for us folk who don't have the
> kinds of graphics hardware that wastrels such as Vista seem to demand.)
> I turn off such eye candy! So I sincerely hope that they're not wasting
> developer time on such things and instead dealing with real issues.

Instead I thought is a "stupid" and "simple" effect... in GNOME (that
I hate) is light! However, you have reason is a useless and idiot
effect.


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