Sounds like an interesting concept.. my only worry is what sort of memory requirements it would have to really be useful.. The "transparent" Xterms work so-so on my system, but it seems to hog a little video memory to do it.. would this work the same way? Jay On Monday 15 October 2001 11:58 am, you wrote: > I'm waiting for my approval emaill from the kde3alpha mailing list, but in > the meantime, I'll post here what I intend to post to that list in hopes > that someone here is a KDE developer and can suggest or implement this in > the community. > > The new version of QT adds hardware accelerated alpha channel support. > Since KDE3 will use the latest version of QT, would it be possible to place > a slider on the title bar of every application which would allow one to > change the app from 0-100% opacity? That way, I can sit and browse sites > with a semi-transparent konqueror, and still watch what is going on in > windows behind it. A mod like this would be sweet eye-candy, but also > quite useful from a productivity standpoint (since I routinely have about > 20 windows open, or more). > > Thoughts? > > Jay > _______________________________________________ > Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, > Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list -- Jay Kline list at slushpupie.com http://www.slushpupie.com -- I reverently believe that the maker who made us all makes everything in New England, but the weather. I don't know who makes that, but I think it must be raw apprentices in the weather-clerks factory who experiment and learn how, in New England, for board and clothes, and then are promoted to make weather for countries that require a good article, and will take their custom elsewhere if they don't get it. -- Mark Twain