NathanTwist
04-15-2002, 12:58 AM
does anyone out there know of any cool transparant themes? kind of spiked my curiosity after seeing LainOS.
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sarah31
04-15-2002, 01:11 AM
For what applications? All of the transparent apps i use are just apps that can be run via terminal. I think you can get trans parent menus for kde from some place but i dont remember the name right now.
Frith
04-15-2002, 01:34 PM
Originally posted by sarah31:
<STRONG>For what applications? All of the transparent apps i use are just apps that can be run via terminal. I think you can get trans parent menus for kde from some place but i dont remember the name right now.</STRONG>
Why do you do that? If you've got X, why not use it?
Personally, I only run console applications in the CLI and I run graphical programs in X...except when I just don't feel like loading up the gui version (I'm just referring to vim here...don't worry).
<STRONG>For what applications? All of the transparent apps i use are just apps that can be run via terminal. I think you can get trans parent menus for kde from some place but i dont remember the name right now.</STRONG>
Why do you do that? If you've got X, why not use it?
Personally, I only run console applications in the CLI and I run graphical programs in X...except when I just don't feel like loading up the gui version (I'm just referring to vim here...don't worry).
smokybobo
04-15-2002, 03:27 PM
I'm a CLI junkie and I run all progs from a term. Why? Unlimited number of terms can be opened. Very useful when programming and such and in some cases much faster than opening up a menu and navigating to the prog u want. Then again, it really is all to do with preference.
sans-hubris
04-15-2002, 03:41 PM
High Performance Liquid (http://www.mosfet.org/liquid.html) (for use with KDE2/3)
KDE3 now has native support for true transparencies (well, actually, it just takes advantage of the support through X), but you need the hardware to be able to do this, where as HPL fakes it and is therefore faster.
If you, like me, are sick of all the MacOSX-bubbly looks, check out RENO Desk (http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=1061). It takes its inspiration from .NET. .NET is completely 2d and I actually like it (wait, I just said I like soemthing from Microsoft, the end of the world must be nigh!)
You could also check out DirectFB (http://www.directfb.org/), which also does real transparencies, and is actually faster than X, but it's not X. This too requires good hardware to work.
BTW, whenever you read about alpha-blending, it's the same thing as real transparencies.
[ 15 April 2002: Message edited by: sans-hubris ]
KDE3 now has native support for true transparencies (well, actually, it just takes advantage of the support through X), but you need the hardware to be able to do this, where as HPL fakes it and is therefore faster.
If you, like me, are sick of all the MacOSX-bubbly looks, check out RENO Desk (http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=1061). It takes its inspiration from .NET. .NET is completely 2d and I actually like it (wait, I just said I like soemthing from Microsoft, the end of the world must be nigh!)
You could also check out DirectFB (http://www.directfb.org/), which also does real transparencies, and is actually faster than X, but it's not X. This too requires good hardware to work.
BTW, whenever you read about alpha-blending, it's the same thing as real transparencies.
[ 15 April 2002: Message edited by: sans-hubris ]
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