Transparent panel,applets

[Steve Fox <drfickle k-lug com>]

This was a thread from back in March. I'm just curious if transparency
is still in the plan?

Thanks.

John Ellis wrote:
> 
> "jack wallen, jr" wrote:
> >
> > ran helix update today and it worked like a charm!  man every time i start
> > playing around with helix-gnome i'm more and more impressed!  i have a
> > question....there was talk about transparent themes for the panel for a
> > while.  is this every going to happen?  also...when you change the hiding
> 
> Recently there was a question asking if tranparent applets were
> possible, but a transparent panel (like in Eterm, gnome-terminal)
> would be cool too. Then you could have transparent applets on a
> transparent panel :)
> 
> I do not recall discussion of a transparent panel, but I would vote
> for it to go on the wishlist.
> 
> Transparent applets are possible, especially after the next gnome-core
> release. (There is a bug in 1.1.5 breaking transparent applets that
> are not square)
> 
> A screen shot showing a few applets (in progress) that support
> transparency is here:
> 
> http://gqview.netpedia.net/applets-transp.png
> 
> Some will be available after the 1.1.6 gnome-core release, but not
> before for the reason already stated above.
> 
> -John
> 
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