On Tue, 2003-08-05 at 06:25, Net Llama! wrote:
A coworker just got a sexy new Mac Powerbook, and had me drooling over how gorgeous the entire OSX UI is. But what really blew me away was the fact that OSX can do _real_ window transparency, like this:
http://osx.hyperjeff.net/Showcase/screen_shots/03.28.CocoaNTerminal.jpg
That means that every window can be transparent to whatever is behind it. Not just the (now) cheap hacks that we see with linux terms, where you get the background image, and nothing else.
Or maybe someone can prove me wrong. Is there linux functionality that will give me true transparency?
On KDE 3.1, this is sort of possible. All menus can be transparent. It is actually useful sometimes when pull-down menus cover the work you need the menu for. So, you do not need to get rid of and bring back the menu if you need to consult on-screen info to make a decision in the menu.
hrmmm. in OSX, you can make any window 0-100% transparent, in real time. damn, and all this time i've been mocking my wife's love of Macs.
The only other transparent app I know of is eterm.
and aterm. I think konsole can do it too, but since i don't have KDE anywhere, i can't test it.
As OSX is using XFree86 (right?), some Linux desktop could also provide this. I am not sure if transparency is an X thing now. I seem to recall reading that.
OSX can use XFree86, however that's not what it natively uses (and, i don't believe its what is used in that screenshot).
IMO, I like the transparent menus. But not all windows. I quickly got
bored with transparent eterm.
transparent eterm isn't the same thing. that's just the old background hack (which aterm does too).
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