transparency - the real thing

[Jack Coates]

now that is purty -- the drop-shadows are nice. I wouldn't use so much
translucency for legibility reasons, but to each his own.

Jack

On Mon, 2003-08-04 at 22:21, Olivier Fourdan wrote:
> Couple of links (and yes, it's xfce) :
> 
> http://julius.solutions-i.org/uploaded/images/000029.max.jpg
> 
> (http://julius.solutions-i.org/?page_id=4)
> 
> Cheers,
> OlivieR.
> 
> On Tue, 2003-08-05 at 06:25, Net Llama! wrote:
> > A coworker just got a sexy new Mac Powerbook, and had me drooling over how 
> > gorgeous the entire OSX UI is.  But what really blew me away was the fact 
> > that OSX can do _real_ window transparency, like this:
> > 
> > http://osx.hyperjeff.net/Showcase/screen_shots/03.28.CocoaNTerminal.jpg
> > 
> > That means that every window can be transparent to whatever is behind it. 
> > Not just the (now) cheap hacks that we see with linux terms, where you get 
> > the background image, and nothing else.
> > 
> > Or maybe someone can prove me wrong.  Is there linux functionality that 
> > will give me true transparency?
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Jack Coates
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