Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 13th Dec 2007 18:27 UTC, submitted by SEJeff
"GNOME theme engine designer Andrea Cimitan has implemented support for transparent widgets in the Murrine GTK theme engine, bringing Vista-like translucent glass effects to the GNOME desktop. Cimitan used RGBA colormaps to implement the feature and says that, with only 10 or 20 extra lines of code, translucency can easily be added to other theme engines that support RGBA. Cimitan says that the addition of translucency effects proves that critics of GTK are wrong. "[I]n the last week I've seen a lot of people claiming about 'lacks' of Gtk+ capabilities," wrote Cimitan in a blog entry. "Some of them still think that Gtk+ doesn't have RGBA support... Or it will require nasty hacks. This is absolutely false."
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Sorry I meant to edit my post but got distracted. I have not known of transparency in the widget set in QT3 or KDE3. I have only seen "fake" transparency in the panel before.
So my answer was more of what I know and by omission stating that I don't think KDE has had it for 2 years.
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Not answering the question is it, someone said Qt has been doing this for years, where are the themes that can do this in KDE3?
The Qt4 series can do this. That has nothing to do with KDE3 themes. Plasma in KDE4 uses it right now. It just isn't very interesting for a theme to use though since there is no logical place to put transparency for all apps. Some apps can code this in if it helps their specific app in a specific place, but this is not a useful general tool.
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Plasma is going to use it in places. See Aaron Seigo's blog for details. Apparently GTK has some kind of bug in their implementation.
His blog is http://aseigo.blogspot.com/
The relevant posts are:
http://aseigo.blogspot.com/2007/12/argb-visuals.html
http://aseigo.blogspot.com/2007/12/argb-updates.html
http://aseigo.blogspot.com/2007/12/busy-day-doing-apparently-nothin...