Version: (using Devel) Installed from: Compiled sources Compiler: GCC 4.2.3 OS: Linux Little wish: options to turn on transparency for panel (the new kicker), konsole and manus in KDE4. I do not like this little white panel's trim which separates it from the rest of desktop.
The option is there ... ?
Uhm? I saw option in konsole, but it doesn't work. Menu transparency isn't available in oxygen. I didn't find option to turn on panel transparency.
JJ: To be done in the MakeTransparent effect and in window-specific settings (rules.cpp).
Created attachment 23861 [details] Add transparency support for menus in kwin
The kicker replacement in plasma supports SVG themes with transparency, so it's probably possible to make it configurable. I don't think this is a kwin issue. Konsole also has its own settings for transparency, but it might require you to start konsole with --enable-transparency due to earlier troubles with nvidia cards or something like that. In Comment #4 i attached a patch that adds support for menu transparency in kwins "make transparent" plug-in. I'm not sure if it's the correct way to do it though, as it took about 10 minutes to code without prior knowledge to how kwin works. The patch seems to work fine for me (nvidia card). :-)
"Konsole also has its own settings for transparency, but it might require you to start konsole with --enable-transparency due to earlier troubles with nvidia cards or something like that." Yes, it works with "desktop effects" turned on, but it isn't "not true" transparency and it works slow. "Not true" transparency can be better, for example it can show your wallpaper all the time (Opera/Konqueror as konsole's background can really annoy you). Should I fill new request for konsole to add old "untrue" transparency? "The kicker replacement in plasma supports SVG themes with transparency" It also works, but only when "desktop effects" are turned on and it's not configurable.
"Not true" transparency is an ugly hack with technical problems and is not supported by KDE4.
But this "ugly hack with technical problems" works well while true transparency has some serious issues like https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=158093 which make it unusable.
You are welcome to become the maintainer of the faked transparency code to find out how well it works. You can try asking for support for displaying the wallpaper in Konsole, but it'll possibly get rejected, I don't know.
Panel: You need a plasma theme with transparency konsole: start it with konsole --enable-transparency
Sebastian, please, read the whole thread. True transparency in konsole is not what I really expect. Letters as a backgraound to letters are very annoying (as I said before: "Opera/Konqueror as konsole's background can really annoy you"). Moreover it works really slow on nvidia card (I know that this is realated to nvidia's driver, but it makes konsole with true transparency unusable for meny people).
Hi Abaddon, Konsole doesn't have any support for image backgrounds right now. That is a pre-requisite for being able to show the desktop image as the background, which is what "fake-transparency" really means. There is a bug report open for this (bug #157882). As it stands at the moment, that will probably be implemented for KDE 4.2.
Why not 4.1? For me it is a "must have" feature :)
Is anyone implementing fake transparency in konsole? KDE 4.2 is approaching :)
Hi, No, not that I am aware. Unfortunately there are a lot of more pressing bugs to deal with and 'fake transparency' isn't a high priority at the moment.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 99198 ***