
Taskbar, thumbnails and halos
Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements
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What if one hovers over an app in the taskbar, all the open windows is made transparent, and the hovered app gets a flashing (or non-flashing, your choice) halo? (Halo or shadow, but shadow is a more colour-independent description)
How it could be implemented is by on making the windows transparent, all the open windows could be converted to OpenGL-textures (and then be made transparent), and so not hogging the CPU-resources.
If there is a positive outcome, I'll post it to the kde developers. I'm not even going to dare doing it myself (no C++ programmer, just a fresh Delphi/Windows convert), but this feature is one I really like to see make it's way to KDE4. This is very kompose-ish, but would greatly improve the ui.
Please leave your thoughts.
elektroschock
16 years ago
??
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daphantom
16 years ago
I do not GTK until GTK-on-KDE is finished. (Unless I'm somewhere mistaken...)
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xfury
16 years ago
The only real problem would be interacting with the taskbar. However it could be possible to integrate translucency control into the taskbar (through the translucency window-manager property which transset sets) so that it dims all the others except the one you want.
Right now all my windows have shadows, so perhaps if it was a general halo of a different color.
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Superstoned
16 years ago
you might fill a wish for kwin and/or kicker...
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vanyar
16 years ago
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