Making the panel transparent in 2.10

[Adam Weinberger]

Chris wrote:
> Adam Weinberger wrote:
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>>Chris wrote:
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>>>Adam Weinberger wrote:
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>>>>Chris wrote:
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>>>>>Is this possible? I mean, the whole panel in Gnome 2.10?
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>>>>Explain a bit more plz. Do you mean that you want all the applets
>>>>transparent as well?
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>>>>You know, the best way to get a completely transparent panel is to
>>>>delete it.
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>>>># Adam
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>>>While it's true that would be one way to do it, but I sorta like the
>>>panel up there. In answer to your question, yes - the whole thing. As it
>>>is, you can set the transpearancy, but it does not do the complete
>>>panel. Only parts of it. IE: Where it's labeled Applications Places
>>>Desktop
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>>When a panel is set to be transparent, it passes a signal in that regard
>>to all the applets in that panel. If an applet recognizes and has
>>support for transparency, it will set itself to be transparent. The menu
>>portion of the panel has not been built with transparency support, and I
>>sincerely doubt it will be. It is designed to stand out against a
>>background.
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>># Adam
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> Thanks for the explanation Adam. Just today I moved from KDE to Gnome.
> So far, without any regrets.
> 
> So - please don't mind if I ask several basic and silly questions.

Okay. Then please don't mind if I give you silly answers about deleting 
panels.

# Adam


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