On 4/3/07, Jesse Ross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Actually, I wish that non-focused windows would be slightly
>> transparent, slightly greyed out, or both. It would make it more
>> obvious which window was focused, instead of just haaving the tiny
>> sliver of a title bar. Anyways, this is a feature request
>> regardless of whether we have title bars or not, but with it, you
>> could tell which window is focused without a title bar.
>
> I agree here. On OS X, I've found recently that I keep typing
> things in the wrong window because, without paying attention, I
> don't have enough visual clues to see which one is active. The
> shadow is nice, if you are looking at the border, and the title bar
> is okay, if you are looking at the top of the screen.
>
> Some basic knowledge of the human visual system tells us that the
> eye can only see a small amount clearly, and the brain makes up the
> rest. On a decent sized screen, the small amount that is in focus
> can be smaller than the size of a window, meaning that the shadows
> and the titlebar can fall outside the bit your brain can see (as
> opposed to make up). If you are expecting the window to have
> focus, your brain will fill in the visual clues, even if they are
> not there. If the windows are slightly faded / translucent, then
> you will be able to tell if a window is active wherever you are
> looking in it.
And now we see where Yen-Ju's recent transparency code makes perfect
sense.
Yen-Ju, how hard would it be do make all non-focused windows at, say
60% opacity?
I just read some document yesterday and there are two ways,
a quick one and a better one.
In any case, you need the composite extension from x.org.
I found this article useful for users:
http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Xorg_X11_and_Tranparency.
In term of implementation, I have a not-near-future plan.
First, I need to make Azalea use Cairo for drawing instead of core X
protocols.
Second is that I have to decide where to put the composite stuff.
I can either put it in Azalea, which I prefer not to,
or put it in a separated application which work with Azalea,
as what AZDock does now, probably call it AZComposer.
Yen-Ju
J.
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