Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 8th Sep 2008 23:23 UTC
The US patent might be a bit daft, especially when it comes to software, but it does offer some interesting insights into what crazy things the big companies might be working on for future products. One such patent emerged today: Microsoft applied in 2005 (and was granted in 2008) a patent which describes how different windows may be coloured differently, or that they may have different transparency settings. This sounds a bit weird, but it may actually prove to be quite useful.
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2006-11-14
kde can do that too, you can go to any window bar, right click -> advanced -> special windows settings -> preferences and set active window and inactive windows opacity to whatever % you want ..
you can have as many windows as you want with different transparency ..
ps:
the above procedure is in kde4, the same functionality is there in kde3, it might take another route to get there though