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I just installed OpenSuSE 11.3 and my desk top is a bit hard to use. The apps seem to have translucency set to "invisible" and the panel has black lettering on a black background. I want that panel to have some contrast between characters and background and I want it to auto-hide. The auto hiding is hiding behind invisible menus. Two questions:

1. Where did my previous settings go?
2. Why is it even allowed that fonts have colors that are indistinguishable from the background? Oh,
3. invisible calendars and calculators are not useful.

Answers:

1. Nowhere. Because this was an upgrade, there were missing theme settings. Whatever "themes" are.
Anyway, without a theme, the background was black and the letters were still very, very dark gray.
Poor choice of default. With letters defaulting to near-black, the background *MUST* default to something
with a little contrast.

2. I'd still like to know.

3. Haven't resolved that one yet. Somewhere there's a setting to make window backgrounds be opaque.
That should be the default (continuing familiar behavior). Then, you can prominently display "Hey!
There's a cool new feature to allow window background to be translucent so you can see what's
behind it." It detracts significantly to be unable to use the app itself because all you can see is the
underlying background.