Panel colors, background and compositing...

[Daniel Winter]

Am Monday 24 November 2008 23:40:03 schrieb Davide Bettio:
> Hi,
>
> Il Monday 24 November 2008 23:30:52 Jud Craft ha scritto:
> > 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.
>
> It's just a matter of using things with an alpha channel over a backround
> and Qt is able to do that in a fast manner.
> Probably it isn't the best solution, but it allows us to get a great result
> wihtout 3D capabilities and in a quite fast way.

Just wondering:

How is the folderview doing this? It lets the desktop wallpaper shine through 
even without compositing.