Re: gnome-panel transparency problems

[Mark McLoughlin <mark skynet ie>]

Hi,

On Thu, 2004-05-06 at 20:35, Mikael Carneholm wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 11:05:15AM +0300, Enver ALTIN wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > On Thu, 2004-04-22 at 00:36 -0600, Kurt Fitzner wrote:
> > > Definitely will log it. :)  As to fixing it... if no one else is 
> > > actively working on it at the moment, I'll definitely take a shot at it. 
> > 
> > First of all, I would like to thank you for pointing on the problem and
> > your work of transparent applets is appreciated.
> > 
> > > All right. I'll do it for those applets for which it will make sense 
> > > right now, and do some more thinking for some of the others that could 
> > > be harmed.  Maybe XORing text on the background??
> > 
> 
> Hey, I have a proposal! (have thought about this for a LOOONG time):
> 
> For areas in applets that contain text (clock applet, window list applet, etc),
> check the RGB value of the pixels in the background area;

	Sounds like a reasonable approach - a patch would be great :-)

Cheers,
Mark.