Re: Feature freeze break for libwnck and gnome-panel

[Elijah Newren <newren gmail com>]

I can help with the explanation a bit here...

On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 00:20:38 +0100, Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com> wrote:

> What is the wncklet applet?

It's the "Window List" (and the "Window Selector" and the "Workspace
Switcher" and the "Show Desktop") process.

> Can you explain simply exactly what the user will see, or not see, with
> this change? "Better transparency support" is not very informative.

Buttons have a theme-defined non-transparent background, making them
not match the expected background for transparent panels.  The patch
removes any UI hint that pressable buttons exist (except for the
currently active window which will still show a button and thus not
match the background) when a pixmap or transparent background is being
used for the panel in order to make the background look cool (there's
some screenshots that Ryan attached to bug 167932 that show a couple
of cases both with and without the patch).