[kde-linux] Transparency and "Neffscape"

[david]

Alain M. wrote:
> 
> Anne Wilson escreveu:
>> 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.
> 
> Transparency uses zero resources if you manage to get your HW 3D to 
> work, which is not so easy. I have only one machine (Toshiba notebook) 
> where it works with Mandriva 2008, and it is amazing. Though not usefull 
> at all ;-)

None of the Toshiba notebooks used around here have hardware 3D. And 
transparency only makes the screen look more cluttered, makes things 
hard to read, and otherwise seems rather useless to me. Even on Windows.

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David
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