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GNOME theme engine designer adds transparency to GTK
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Andrea Cimitan implimented transparent widgets in the GTK theme engine. Finally. OK, well, maybe not finally, but it’s about time GTK caught up with 2004:
“GNOME theme engine designer Andrea Cimitan has implemented support for transparent widgets in the Murrine GTK theme engine, bringing Vista-like translucent glass effects to the GNOME desktop. Cimitan used RGBA colormaps to implement the feature and says that, with only 10 or 20 extra lines of code, translucency can easily be added to other theme engines that support RGBA.”
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2 Comments
sjc1963
December 15th, 2007
at 5:04pm
Doesn’t the Emerald Theme manager already offer this as well for a while now?
Craighton Miller
April 6th, 2009
at 11:55pm
Thats really good, I do develop and it is great to heat they you are adding transparency!