Panel colors, background and compositing...

[Jud Craft]

I believe it has been expressed that the overall philosophy with
Plasma is that if you have 3d-compositing capability, you get
compositing features.  If you do not, then you don't.  There will be
no clever hacks to enable such effects in a non-composited
environment.

I remember that there is a post on Aaron Seigo's blog
(http://aseigo.blogspot.com) regarding this, but I do not remember the
exact post.

I do wish that there were non-composited ways to add a touch of flare
to your KDE desktop, however; for example, the ability to color-tint
the current plasma theme (similar to what Vista does for the Aero
interface's taskbar) would be nice, as opposed to merely having one
color hardcoded in a plasma theme.