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[Request] Total transparency

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alexandernst
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[Request] Total transparency

Sun Jan 30, 2011 3:17 pm
I'm using Transparent Oxygen, and almost everything is transparent, but there are a few parts that aren't, like Dolphins file/folder area, the text area of quassel, etc...

So, those areas are using the color of my theme instead of being transparent. I tried to modify my current theme, but I can't change the color translucency.It's like there was no RGBA support.

Is this possible?

Using 4.6 vainilla on Arch
alexandernst
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Re: [Request] Total transparency

Sun Jan 30, 2011 11:55 pm
Maybe I should change my question. Does KDE Colour Scheme support RGBA? Or even better: Can I make a translucent colour scheme and import it from KDE's Style & Aappearence config ?
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Re: [Request] Total transparency

Mon Jan 31, 2011 4:49 pm
generally only those parts of the window that use the Window color from the color scheme (the back of the window itself - upon which other widgets are drawn) will be transparent. Any buttons or views (e.g. text areas, the files pane in dolphin or konqueror, the html view area in konqueror, etc.) will not be transparent. There currently isn't support for RGBA for other parts of the window (the alpha part of the window background isn't controlled by the color scheme either, but by the style engine itself)


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Re: [Request] Total transparency

Mon Jan 31, 2011 6:25 pm
Is the style engine (in my case) Oxygen Transparent? Or it's something different? If yes, is there any posibility to patch it and make it support RGBA on those areas too?
If no, is there any way that I could make those areas translucent too?
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Re: [Request] Total transparency

Tue Feb 01, 2011 5:06 pm
Oxygen Transparent is a style engine. I suppose there may be the possibility of allowing RGBA for other widgets - post a request in the Brainstorm forum.
On the other hand - you can use that across any style engine as well as on gtk or other toolkit apps as it is handled by the compositor of the window manager.

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Re: [Request] Total transparency

Tue Feb 01, 2011 7:29 pm
You should probably goto systemsettings->desktop-effects->All Effects->Translucency. Click on that spanner ("wrench", if you love google-chrome). Set your transparency.
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Re: [Request] Total transparency

Tue Feb 01, 2011 9:18 pm
That's true - just use the desktop effects to set the transparency for the whole window; though the trouble there is that everything, including text will also be transparent - rendering a 100% transparent window 100% unusable.


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alexandernst
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Re: [Request] Total transparency

Tue Feb 01, 2011 10:28 pm
No, there is a difference between transparent and translucent, and there is a difference between the transparency plugin on KDE and Oxygen-Transparent. (Try it and you'll see).
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Re: [Request] Total transparency

Wed Feb 02, 2011 1:40 pm
Right, there are differences. I was trying to suggest a quick-fix :)


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