Re: [Nautilus-list] Re: Nautilus background patch

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

Richard Hestilow <hestilow ximian com> writes:

> How do the terminal and panel implement transparency? I was under the
> impression they read the background settings, in which case they should
> just monitor gconf, but if they are directly reading the root window,
> then yes, that sounds correct.

The root window properties are a informally defined but non-the-less standard
standard, and need to be used both when setting and for displaying
the transparency.

Regards,
                                        Owen