Re: Feature freeze break for libwnck and gnome-panel

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Sat, 2005-02-26 at 16:44 -0700, Elijah Newren wrote:
> 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).

OK. This feels like a bug fix to me, so I don't think it needs approval.
If we think of it as a UI change then, because it's not documented yet,
I have no problem giving 1 of 2 approvals.

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