Simon TRENY wrote: > On Sun, 14 Jan 2007 01:29:55 -0600, > Ed Presutti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote : > >> Is there any way to do desktop translucency with the available Evas >> engines? I know i'm asking for a lot here and that this has been >> discussed in the past, but my current project would benefit greatly >> from it. (It's an EFL-powered desktop widget library) >> >> I've tried the software_x11 and xrender_x11 engines with no luck in >> either using the ecore_evas_alpha_set() call. What i'd really like is >> to not set the alpha at all from the C code and just let Evas >> determine when to do alpha based on the code in the edje file. (That >> way, my widget developers can control when they want alpha) > > you should indeed call ecore_evas_alpha_set() on the Ecore Evas, but > it's not enough. You also need a composite manager that will perform > the translucency effect. The "bling" module of e17 does that, but you > can also use xcompmgr or any window manager that supports composite > natively. > >> Also, if there is a way to do it, will it work in other environments >> besides E17? If it doesn't work in the POS Compiz/Beryl environments, >> i'm totally okay with that. :-) >> >> Thanks in advance, >> Ed Presutti (ekrunch on freenode) > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your > opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > _______________________________________________ > enlightenment-devel mailing list > enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-deve
There's some code in e_popup.c to do this for the shelves in E17. Grep for composite. It's switched on using enlightenment-remote, but, yeah, you'll need bling or compiz. metrics ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
