Version: (using KDE 4.1.2) Installed from: Ubuntu Packages Originally reported at https://launchpad.net/bugs/279690 Currently if one uses Coverswitch in conjunction with transparency for inactive windows, only the window with focus is opaque. Every other non-focused window stays opaque even if it is currently being shown with Coverswitch, making it somewhat useless since you have a harder time seeing what's in the window. It would be better if the currently-shown window in Coverswitch was always opaque.
Personally I think the best solution would be that transparency is disabled at all during coverswitch. Transparency and coverswitch together do not make any sense in my opinion. Therefor we need a way to disable a different effect dynamically. Which is not yet available and due to upcoming feature freeze won't be there for 4.2. I think there's already an open bug for it and I would say this bug's a duplicate of it.
Can't you like... just not multiply by data.opacity?
Well I could reset the value to 1.0, but that would not help if another effect processed after coverswitch changes the values again.
Yes that is true, completely forgot you've changed how the effect works. ^_^;
Easy solution: translucency effect should not alter windows while a fullscreen effect is active. Fullscreen effects take care of the complete window alteration.
After thinking over it again I don't think there is anything wrong. If a user sets the windows to be transparent, then they are transparent. Not all effects make sense working together and it is totally fine to have an effect which makes another effect less usable. Given the number of effects and the complexity derived by that it is just impossible to even try to achieve that everything works perfectly well together. That said and given the time since the feature request has been opened it is probably the most honest thing to say that we won't fix this request.