Bug 184990

Summary: JJ: Skip darkening/transparency effects when "Keep above others" is active
Product: [Plasma] kwin Reporter: Einar Lielmanis <einars+kdebugs>
Component: compositingAssignee: KWin default assignee <kwin-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: wishlist CC: friiduh, ilkevich
Priority: NOR Keywords: junior-jobs
Version First Reported In: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Compiled Sources   
OS: Linux   
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Description Einar Lielmanis 2009-02-20 02:28:14 UTC 
Version:            (using Devel)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Compiled sources

I'm a big fan of Translucency (and, to the lesser extent, Dim Inactive) desktop effects for inactive windows, it looks wonderful. Still there are occurences when some inactive window contents are hurt by transparency — most notably using a windowed video player in a background.

Currently there is no way to ask system not to apply any darkening/translucency effects to a specific window, except by switching off compositioning or effects altogether.

I propose that Translucency:inactive and Dim Inactive effects wouldn't be applied to windows which have "Keep above others" option set: if required, their transparency could be adjusted manually.

Other approach could probably be a (new?) option for special window/application settings.
Comment 1 Martin Flöser 2009-06-28 20:36:10 UTC 
*** Bug 191721 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 2 Martin Flöser 2009-12-11 21:22:00 UTC 
*** Bug 202424 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 Martin Flöser 2012-03-11 21:13:26 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 99198 ***