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Idea #9412: Make gnome support transparency (rgba)

bug This idea was marked as implemented the 22 November 11. Available starting Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot.
Written by gmeier the 3 Jun 08 at 07:12. Category: Look and Feel. Related project: Nothing/Others. Status: Implemented
Rationale
It would be very nice to see all gnome core apps support transparency.
I am of course not talking about completely transparent windows, that can be done with compiz already, but something like this:
http://cimi.netsons.org/blog/index.php?s=aiming
At least the existing patches should be included in ubuntu by default: http://www.cimitan.com/murrine/rgba-support/list
This would be very easy, but offer a lot of new theming options.

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Written by gmeier the 3 Jun 08 at 07:12.
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gmeier wrote on the 3 Jun 08 at 08:09
Can anybody tell me why this idea doesn't show up in most popular today, while much worse rated ideas do?

krs wrote on the 3 Jun 08 at 10:09
http://www.cimitan.com/blog/2008/02/17/rgba-colormap-by-default-in-gtk-call-for -a-coder/

krs wrote on the 3 Jun 08 at 10:15
and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpRQkiB7Rrc

francois wrote on the 3 Jun 08 at 11:06
gnome-panel true transparency should at least be added (like in XFCE)
They did it for gnome-terminal a long time ago. I think it's simply a patch isn't it?

flammon wrote on the 3 Jun 08 at 11:10
@gmeier: Because the voting system is broken in a few key areas. Can't retract vote. Can't give 1 idea multiple votes.

Eldmannen wrote on the 3 Jun 08 at 11:12
I strongly agree.

Other operating systems can do that, we must not lag behind. It looks totally sweet.

* http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/7824/

jhuni wrote on the 3 Jun 08 at 20:43
It is just eye candy, it is not very significant.

Adila01 wrote on the 3 Jun 08 at 22:33
@jhuni

Eye Candy is highly significant to the overall usability of an OS. Could you handle an OS look like that from the Windows 3.1 era?

unimatrix wrote on the 3 Jun 08 at 23:32
Agree with Adila01

And when this is implemented, please consider adding the blur effect to it, otherwise it can be kinda distracting.

gmeier wrote on the 4 Jun 08 at 09:38
jhuni, this idea is in category "look and feel". Most ideas here are about eye-candy, you know :-)

kraftman wrote on the 23 Jun 08 at 08:04
It won't work with nvidia cards due to drivers bugs... But it should work with better supported cards. +1

slsolaris wrote on the 30 Dec 08 at 02:24
this is tru transparency, you should add.
http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/384589/42755-3.jpg

coldReactive wrote on the 26 Dec 09 at 14:32
http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/23098/

Was marked a duplicate of this brainstorm.

cheesehead (Brainstorm admin) wrote on the 22 Nov 11 at 22:49
Implemented in Gnome3, available starting in 11.10.


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