On Sat, 5 Jan 2013 00:58:22 +1000 David Seikel <[email protected]> said:

> On Fri, 4 Jan 2013 23:37:28 +0900 Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman)
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> >  On Fri, 4 Jan 2013 23:28:39 +1000 David Seikel <[email protected]>
> > said:
> > 
> > > On Fri, 4 Jan 2013 18:29:52 +0900 Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman)
> > > <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > On Mon, 31 Dec 2012 12:14:30 -0200 Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri
> > > > <[email protected]> said:
> > > > 
> > > > > On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 2:44 AM, David Seikel
> > > > > <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > > > 
> > > > > > On Sat, 22 Dec 2012 16:26:06 -0200 Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri
> > > > > > <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > > On Saturday, December 22, 2012, David Seikel wrote:
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > I remember in the not too distant past I could set the E17
> > > > > > > > compositor to make unfocused windows partially see
> > > > > > > > through. Did that get removed? If it's still there, how
> > > > > > > > to turn it on?
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Set the color class. At least detourious can handle that
> > > > > > > (Settings > Look > Colors)
> > > > > >
> > > > > > That did not work in the main theme.
> > > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > yeah, raster forgot about colorclasses in his hurry to do the
> > > > > dark theme. Detourious do have them.
> > > > > 
> > > > > basically we need to change the theme:
> > > > >  - use color classes names supported by the configuration module
> > > > > (there is a fixed array of names in C)
> > > > >  - use color as white (255 255 255 255);
> > > > >  - use the color class with the actual value. it will multiply
> > > > > the white and will become itself (red x white = red)
> > > > 
> > > > well i gave MOSt things that i saw had color and font classes - i
> > > > gavce them colorclasses - but i didnt define a colorclasses
> > > > section with every entry there indeed. this is something i just
> > > > had to put off until "later". one of those things that need
> > > > attention in the default theme. now the pressure is off i'm open
> > > > to the idea of streamlining the theme and making it as nice as is
> > > > doable visually.
> > > > 
> > > > and yes i know - gustavo wont be happy until it looks just like
> > > > macos-x (or maybe windows 8). :) non-solid/plain gradient colors
> > > > seem to burn his eyes in. eg any bevels/highlights/shadows at
> > > > all. :)
> > > > 
> > > > though things that are still "urgent":
> > > > 
> > > > icons that were not changed for release (still old ones)
> > > > icons that were changed "in a hurry" need attention.
> > > > module icons (in the module icon edj files)
> > > > .directory files for enlightenment.menu and accompanying icons
> > > > needed.
> > > > 
> > > > basically. :)
> > > > 
> > > > then yes - color/font classes i need to do nicely. as i went
> > > > through i noticed many elements recycled font/colorclasses where
> > > > we really should have added a new one for that use case.
> > > > 
> > > > after some use i notice the mixer just feels/looks
> > > > wrong/different. cpufreq and analogue clock really look
> > > > right/nice in the shelf. i think that recycling the outer circle
> > > > from the cpufreq/clock just with the inner speaker from mixer is
> > > > the way to go there. theres other things that could do with
> > > > nicening up and improvements of course.
> > > 
> > > Soooo, transparent windows not working anymore then, huh?
> > 
> > eh? of course they work.
> 
> How?  That is the topic of this thread that I started.  How do I turn
> on unfocused windows being transparent?  It used to work, I can't find
> the knob on the compositor that I hit before that turned it on.  The

there never was a knob or slider in the compositor settings - ever. there may
have been a colorclass. transparent windows work - if the theme sets them up.

> thread got side tracked into colour classes, but THAT did not work,
> and is not the "knob on the compositor config dialog" that worked
> before.  The colour class thingy apparently only works if I use some
> other theme than the default E17 theme.

there never was one. there was a style that may have been semi-transparent when
unfocused - i didnt make any such styles when i redid the theme. all windows
are solid.

> So I ask again, how do I turn it on?  "It" being that unfocused windows
> are partially transparent.  I'll qualify that with "and works with the
> default theme".
> 
> -- 
> A big old stinking pile of genius that no one wants
> coz there are too many silver coated monkeys in the world.


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