RFC: Remove Opacity from Alt+F3 menu

[Nuno Pinheiro]

A Quinta, 18 de Agosto de 2011 18:20:08 Martin Gräßlin você escreveu:
> Hi all,
> 
> just an idea I had today: do we really need the opacity menu in the Alt+F3
> menu?

kill it die die :)

> Reasons against the menu:
> * menu in tasks applet does not provide the opacity (missing consistency)
> * Opacity is not really useful as both foreground and background are
> modified (hard to read) and no blur behind
> * Changing of opacity is still possible through titlebar wheel event or
> window rules or translucency effect
> * Alt+F3 menu is really cluttered
> * There is code to throw away the menu whenever the compositing state
> changes
> 
> Personally I don't see a good reason for having the opacity menu at all and
> I found it kind of techy (look what we can do: isn't that awesome?
> Translucent Windows!). So convince me to not remove it :-)
> 
> Cheers
> Martin

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