-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 [email protected] wrote: > Wish we had something like this... I don't care in the least about > transparency, but my first love was wmii, the big brother to dwm... It was > the only one I saw with "chopped off" corners and I really did prefer that > look. It would be great if we could specify an arch or a straight chopped > off corner or even a cutaway square from it... (of course, this would be > subtracted from the border width and not the actual window. Anyway, I do > hope someone can produce something epic. :)
Hi, you got some screenshots or docs on this? I'd be interested in their code to see where I can improve mine. I just downloaded wmii-2's source and I dont seem to find any reference to the SHAPE extension. Cheers, Uli > On Sat, 30 May 2009 08:22:11 -0700 > Andrei Thorp <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I'd just like to add some of my obvious, possible use cases for this: >> >> - Pretty rounded-off notifications (heck, with a composite manager and >> a bit more magic, it would be easy to actually make them fade in/out >> as is popular with notifications these days) >> - Imagine you had a top-docked wibox -- you could round off the >> corners furthest away from the top to make it look like it's tidily >> attached to the top. Very fancy, I guess this is what the Mac top >> panel looks like? (Also this would look even cooler if you made it >> slide in/out for hiding or on startup) >> - Could maybe round off menus too? this might not be as nice though. >> >> Thanks a lot, Uli (and Plagman). I'm really surprised you've put it so >> much effort to do all this on a whimsical request, but I'm very >> grateful. >> >> Cheers, >> >> -Andrei "Garoth" Thorp >> >> On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 2:22 AM, Uli Schlachter <[email protected]> wrote: > Julien Danjou wrote: >>>>> At 1243673434 time_t, Uli Schlachter wrote: >>>>>> P.S.: Since a 1bit pixmap is used there can be no gray involved and thus >>>>>> no >>>>>> anti-aliasing is possible. I'd doubt if some fancy-shape window with >>>>>> rough >>>>>> corners would look good... >>>>> Depends, if you want to draw a triangle, it's enough. :-) > Ok, here is the deal: > XRender can also make parts of a window transparent and cairo supports this. > XRender also allows stuff like 23.3% transparent, so there can also be some > anti-aliasing, BUT this requires a running composite manager. > > When everyone is running composite managers I'll come up with some lua API for > making triangle-shaped wiboxes. :P > > Cheers, > Uli >>> - -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [email protected]. >>> >> -- >> To unsubscribe, send mail to [email protected]. - -- "Do you know that books smell like nutmeg or some spice from a foreign land?" -- Faber in Fahrenheit 451 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJKKR5EAAoJECLkKOvLj8sGTwgH/jQyhsOrfgxaAxWpg8LcHKx+ 41Ny/cpC4dsXuVhDKhGP7fl+CgZmZ4fOu+c6CF3iHSjAO0mQsLDMvFy6SUxxAvHM sQ7UhrOP3lbilwPKzCZaL4PaXDsfGvkMEqA+9eRWMR/2W0Rl3FVRcJbLY83apRcf JBHBxBpEG3VQF9gzy7hKBBLZJjU9O40++Fhw2DzNcQkQMZ+XnsmHi6fWJyVl8BrF qaCe6Pao/Uz6I9QQgkvmpWKAxN8sb7qzZ0lrtIQbJ7AfPRzb9yjGGU89N4i8XGkH v3kv04Hz/81TB7q/raGYGzWGZzuuMANqy2Dlhu+Zg9k1v6QenjL7UkkOj2PAEEc= =UzAS -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [email protected].
