Background Opacity in gnome-terminal 3.8.1

[Mike <mikeandmore gmail com>]

Hi

I'm wondering why background opacity feature was removed in
gnome-terminal 3.8.1? From the bug report
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=695371 , it seems that this
feature was removed on purpose. However, I couldn't find any further
explanations on why this great feature was removed.

Maybe we should bring it back? My personal usage of this feature is
status bar in Emacs. Status bar in Emacs was set to be black
background with white text. So if there is some opacity in the
terminal, I was able to see the status bar and minibuffer more
clearly.

Are there any other concerns?

Thanks
Mike