[compiz] metacity theme opacity

[sNop]

David Reveman napsal(a):
> I pushed out some changes to gwd that makes it possible to properly set
> an overall opacity value for any metacity theme. Making the complete
> decorations translucent can look bad with some themes. However, I've
> made it possible to have the opacity fade from opaque to the selected
> opacity value in a similar way to how the built-in decorations look.
> This usually looks a lot better.
>
> I'll add a schema file for gwd sometime soon but you'll have to manually
> add the gconf keys for now:
>
> gconftool-2 -s /apps/gwd/metacity_theme_opacity -t float 0.75
> gconftool-2 -s /apps/gwd/metacity_theme_shade_opacity -t bool TRUE
> gconftool-2 -s /apps/gwd/metacity_theme_active_opacity -t float 0.75
> gconftool-2 -s /apps/gwd/metacity_theme_active_shade_opacity -t bool TRUE
>
> "active" options affects the active window decorations. "shade" options
> toggles the fade from opaque to translucent.
>
> I think this is the best we can do for opacity support in old metacity
> themes. Once the new theme version lands in metacity [1], gwd will be
> updated to support it and I'm hoping that this new version will include
> support for real opacity.
>
> [1] http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=102547
>
> -David
>
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looks quite good for my popular themes.