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Anubis
May 4th, 2007, 09:13 PM
In the berly-form someone postet a patch for kicker, to enable true transparency:
http://forum.beryl-project.org/viewtopi ... =54&t=4907 (http://forum.beryl-project.org/viewtopic.php?f=54&t=4907)

Unfortunately this files dows not exist anymore.
Has anyone still this patch? It wold be nice, if is is postet here :)
jorgxus
May 9th, 2007, 11:57 AM
i would like that too, true transparancy is a cool feature. i hope someone posts this patch.

let us pray KDE 4 has true transparency :P
imported_Yaccin
May 9th, 2007, 09:35 PM
i would like that too, true transparancy is a cool feature. i hope someone posts this patch.

let us pray KDE 4 has true transparency :P


kde 4 has plasma :P
jorgxus
May 15th, 2007, 09:47 AM
what's the diffrence between kicker and plasma ?
Luxus Tuxus
June 2nd, 2007, 08:35 PM
In the berly-form someone postet a patch for kicker, to enable true transparency:
http://forum.beryl-project.org/viewtopi ... =54&t=4907 (http://forum.beryl-project.org/viewtopic.php?f=54&t=4907)

Unfortunately this files dows not exist anymore.
Has anyone still this patch? It wold be nice, if is is postet here :)
I would like to try it too. The Kicker fake transparency is just that - fake, but KDE4 will have real transparency. Just can't wait to see it released.
sonicbhoc
June 9th, 2007, 05:40 PM
I applied the patch from the Gentoo Linux xeffects overlay, but it didn't work...
Zvjer
June 12th, 2007, 08:28 PM
what is plasma?
dragon48
June 12th, 2007, 09:01 PM
what is plasma?
http://plasma.kde.org/
volapyk
June 27th, 2007, 01:19 AM
In Mandriva 2007 Spring with Beryl I use "Set Window Attribs..." and the "Window opacity" flag, to get a transparent kicker. To me it's true transparency. I can see moving windows behind it and stuff.

e.g.
[code:bbe4d]w:dock:75[/code:bbe4d]

I use it with a black kicker background and it looks really nice IMO.
Deciare
June 27th, 2007, 02:47 AM
The Compiz Fusion equivalent of the above can be found in ccsm->General Options->Opacity Settings. Add a matching rule for [code:935ef]type=dock[/code:935ef] and pair it with the opacity value you'd like to use.

Making the whole panel translucent is slightly underwhelming if you have pale icons and pale-coloured text to begin with, though...

But as mentioned above, KDE4 will fix things. :D Qt4 allows just about every element on the screen to have an opacity value, so even things like individual buttons, not to mention whole themes, can make use of translucency!