From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 19 21:02:10 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E7C116A4CE; Sat, 19 Mar 2005 21:02:10 +0000 (GMT) Received: from makeworld.com (makeworld.com [216.201.118.142]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE41543D48; Sat, 19 Mar 2005 21:02:09 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from racerx@makeworld.com) Received: from localhost (localhost.com [127.0.0.1]) by makeworld.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 62C2B60E7; Sat, 19 Mar 2005 15:02:06 -0600 (CST) Received: from makeworld.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (makeworld.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 64716-01; Sat, 19 Mar 2005 15:02:03 -0600 (CST) Received: from [216.201.118.138] (racerx.makeworld.com [216.201.118.138]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by makeworld.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0303A60E4; Sat, 19 Mar 2005 15:01:59 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <423C934B.1010002@makeworld.com> Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2005 15:02:03 -0600 From: Chris User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20050313) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Adam Weinberger References: <423C7585.9090702@makeworld.com> <423C769E.3060209@FreeBSD.org> <423C7741.7090408@makeworld.com> <423C91CC.10603@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <423C91CC.10603@FreeBSD.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.90.1.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by ClamAV 0.75.1/amavisd-new-2.2.1 (20041222) at makeworld.com - Isn't it ironic cc: gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Making the panel transparent in 2.10 X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: racerx@makeworld.com List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2005 21:02:10 -0000 Adam Weinberger wrote: > Chris wrote: > >> Adam Weinberger wrote: >> >>> Chris wrote: >>> >>> >>>> Is this possible? I mean, the whole panel in Gnome 2.10? >>>> >>>> >>> >>> Explain a bit more plz. Do you mean that you want all the applets >>> transparent as well? >>> >>> You know, the best way to get a completely transparent panel is to >>> delete it. >>> >>> # Adam >>> >>> >> >> >> While it's true that would be one way to do it, but I sorta like the >> panel up there. In answer to your question, yes - the whole thing. As it >> is, you can set the transpearancy, but it does not do the complete >> panel. Only parts of it. IE: Where it's labeled Applications Places >> Desktop > > > When a panel is set to be transparent, it passes a signal in that regard > to all the applets in that panel. If an applet recognizes and has > support for transparency, it will set itself to be transparent. The menu > portion of the panel has not been built with transparency support, and I > sincerely doubt it will be. It is designed to stand out against a > background. > > # Adam > > Thanks for the explanation Adam. Just today I moved from KDE to Gnome. So far, without any regrets. So - please don't mind if I ask several basic and silly questions. -- Best regards, Chris In order for something to become clean, something else must become dirty. ... but you can get everything dirty without getting anything clean.