[PATCH] Applet opacity

[Andre Duffeck]

Am Donnerstag 03 April 2008 06:52:41 schrieb Aaron J. Seigo:
> On Wednesday 02 April 2008, Andre Duffeck wrote:
> > I rather want to know if we want that at all. I for one like it, but
> > maybe that's just me...
>
> there have been one or two requests for this in the past. what i'm
> personally missing is the use case beyond "ooh, it's cool!" resize and
even
> rotate have interesting use cases (for rotation, think about horizontal
> surfaces) ... so, perhaps we can start at use cases.
>
> i'm also concerned about how this might interact with other possible
> features that would use translucency...
>
> so .. use cases.

My use case is (besides the coolness of course ;) ) that i want some
applets 
to be less apparent on the screen than others, e.g. a filewatcher showing
my 
syslog. It's nice to make those applets more transparent, stealing less 
attention than the ones i usually want to look at.

Andre