Terminal transparency

[James Westby]

(Apologies if this is the wrong list again, I couldn't find a terminal
specific one)

Hello again,

Hopefully the last thread I shall start today.

This caught my eye

http://xfce-diary.blogspot.com/2006/03/transparent-terminal-hack.html

And so I used the patches, but they didn't have the full features so I
went out and found some better patches. I now have a proper patch for
vte, and a patch that turns fake transparency in to real transparency
for Terminal.

Is this something that you would actually be interested in implementing
properly, or was it more something to toy with? 

Obviosly it requires changes to be merged in to vte, but I got the
original patch from someone at freedesktop.org, and the gnome-terminal
peeps would probably be interested in it as well so they can try and
keep up with Xfce. 

As for the terminal changes I think it would be better to have two
options, fake and real transparency, for those people who don't like one
or the other. I wasn't ready to make such broad changes to the code to
do that though. 

If you are interested in this and vte are keen then I could give it a go
(it's just adding an extra member to an enum and an extra choice in the
menu, then following it through the code to make sure everything else
fits as far as I can see).

The patches are linked from here
http://jameswestby.net/blog/?p=11

Let me know what you think,

James