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------- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-03-28 16:51 -------
We should define "true transparency" beforehand. Here are some types of
transparency I would like to see that might be considered "true" (in the
sense of not being grab-a-pixmap-and-use-it-for-background fakery):
* Ability of a user or window manager to set an overall opacity value
(probably in the range 0..255 or as a percentage) for any given window.
Think of setting the window you're working with to 15% transparent so
that if anything happens in the window behind (say, changes in a log
you're tailing) you can notice.
* Better: Ability of user or window manager to set a transparency _mask_
for each window, i.e., what percentage of each colour component (R, G, B)
shows through from behind. All sorts of possibilities here.
* Another approach: ability of application to set the transparency (either
as a simple value or better a mask) for *portions* of a window. So, then,
an application could make its toolbars and sidebar (for example) mostly
transparent but leave the content area fairly opaque. Or think of a clock
(set always-on-top) that is fully transparent except for the numbers,
which are mostly transparent but darken and blue-ify things slightly,
like a shadow.
These ideas are not necessarily mutually exclusive, but we should define
which sort of transparency this bug is about.
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