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Original von FlowerDragon

Hey, i realize this is an old question, but i've searched the forum and around the net and I honestly can't find an answer.

How do you get a transparent panel in KDE 3.1? Isn't it supposed to be a basic inlucuded feature? I upgraded to KDE 3.1 from 3.0
my panel says it's "KDE Panel 1.1 (Using KDE 3.1.0)"
but there's no option anywhere for having it be transparent. what am i missing?

Unfortunately they still need more help in that area, to allow a better control of transparency. For now you have to set MENU transparency which also effects the panel as well. To get to that open up the KDE control panel, goto Apperance & Themes, Under that branch goto Syle. In styles depending what your using will let you transparent or not, I found some did not let you. Anyhow in the style area you see a tab called "EFFECTS" click on that. That were you can set transparency for the menu's etc. Its by far not the best control of what gets it and what does not! I personally am waiting on a panel only transperancy with options like No Icon transparent when panel is. . stuff like that. I hope this helps.

transparant panel will be included in kde3.2

checkout the features
http://developer.kde.org/development-versions/kde-3.2-features.html

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Original von blub

transparant panel will be included in kde3.2

checkout the features
http://developer.kde.org/development-versions/kde-3.2-features.html

JOY

They should also make the menu be able to be transparent independent of the tyle used. Or maybe there are disadvantages that outweigh the advantages that I haven't noticed.

Great :-) This is currently the only thing that is missing for me in KDE :-)

Hum, im not getting any transparency when using what you described but I remember I could do it before. Also I can't get not transparency in the Konsole tough I could before.

It worked under 3.0 but I never really used it and now it's the first time I tried since 3.1 and it doesn't work anymore.

I am using Keramik window decoration, Keramik Style, Defaults Icons, Default theme. I have tried selecting another window decoration, stlye, icons, background and theme but still I can't get no transparency...

I wish they could have real transparency like the KMenu for KDE apps like Konsole and Kopete instead of just replacing the background with the wallpaper.

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Original von Kenneth

I wish they could have real transparency like the KMenu for KDE apps like Konsole and Kopete instead of just replacing the background with the wallpaper.

As far as I know, both ways are actually using 'pseudo' transparancy. X does not (yet?) allow for true transparancy. The way the pseudo transparancy is implemented in konsole and kopete, may be too complex or interfering with other functions in KMenu. I am not a programmer (well, I dabble, but don't claim to be able to produce even 'hello world'), but I can imagine how inserting such code could conceivably cause problems with other sections of the program.

foo-ey

<excuse the pun>

i hate fake transparency!