desktop background transparency !

[eneru]

Hi :)

I am glad I can have a different desktop background on each side of my cube now (though I have no icons anymore as I use Gnome and had to disable nautilus from drawing it all, bg + icons >.>), but it would be great if we could check a box to tell whether we want the desktop to be transparent or not !

example : I have a png with some transparent parts, as it is now the transparent parts are black (I can't even give a RGB color as it is possible with gnome's default), and it would be great if I could see through it (via a RGBA color by example), to see the dome or the opposite side of the cube, plus the fishes if I installed this plugin.

I think it would be a great addition ;)


A second addition related to this one would be to be able to define multiple wallpapers for each side (by selecting a directory instead of an image by example), with a user defined counter to change them periodically :)

[SmSpillaz]

Both of these are currently implemented :)

For a transparent desktop to see the other sides of the cube and the skydome, open CCSM, and navigate to Desktop Cube -> Transparency -> Inactive opacity and change it to the opacity value you want. After doing this, you will see the other sides of the cube and the skydome. Note that there are some bugs, notably slowness when moving windows and such, as well as some window animations not working.

For wallpapers on each side of the cube, you can use the wallpaper plugin, however you will either have to patch nautilus with racarr's patch (Which I can't seem to find right now) or not use a desktop manager at all. This means that you will lose your icons.

Hope that helped and please put [SOLVED] in the title of your thread

- SmSpillaz

[maniac]

Both of these are currently implemented :)

For a transparent desktop to see the other sides of the cube and the skydome, open CCSM, and navigate to Desktop Cube -> Transparency -> Inactive opacity and change it to the opacity value you want. After doing this, you will see the other sides of the cube and the skydome. Note that there are some bugs, notably slowness when moving windows and such, as well as some window animations not working.

The window animations should already be fixed. What do you mean with "slowness when moving windows"? As all cube faces need to be drawn when transparent cube is activated (as opposed to only one), it's obvious you'll need a better GPU for it ;)


For wallpapers on each side of the cube, you can use the wallpaper plugin, however you will either have to patch nautilus with racarr's patch (Which I can't seem to find right now) or not use a desktop manager at all. This means that you will lose your icons.

Racarr's patch is here: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=444320

[eneru]

well, that's not exactly what I asked (as it makes the whole background more or less transparent), but by putting 99 as the transparency value it kinda do the trick (normal wallpapers are not see through but if there is transparency it is activated :))


As for the wallpaper plugin, the one I have doesn't work (compiz bug and I have to deactivate it and reload compiz for it to work again).. I tested it on the ubuntu feisty repositories.