translucent roster and messages

[anonymous]

It would be nice if the roster and chat windows could be translucent/transparent with different degrees of opacity. Pidgin has this functionality but only in their Windows app.

[steve-e]

Shouldn't the windowmanager control that?

[asterix]

beryl does that

[Liorithiel]

Not exactly, beryl doesn't know which part of window is roster, and which not. Gnome-terminal is able to have translucent background, but also displays characters with no opacity. Gajim could do the same -- make transparent background, but not the foreground text.

[asterix]

does GTK allow that ?

[anonymous]

Replying to asterix:

does GTK allow that ?

Pidgin and gnome-terminal are both GTK. So logicaly, it does, I think.

[anonymous]

Replying to asterix: Pidgin uses a gtk plugin but themes don't confer transparency. Only the Windows version of Pidgin has a transparency plugin.

From their forum:

--- Can I make Pidgin transparent/translucent?

It is not possible to make Pidgin translucent in Linux and other platforms that use X11.

The X.org X11R6 server provides a COMPOSITE extension that allows applications to have true translucency, but it is X.org-specific and it requires support at the GTK+ level (if it is to be per-widget). We do not wish to support this form of translucency until it is supported by GTK+. We also do not wish to implement the pseudo-translucency offered by other programs (by copying a section of your background image, tinting it, and plastering it onto a Pidgin window).

Same issue for Gajim I guess?

[asterix]

yep exactly. When GTK will support that (IMHO that will be hard cause it has to support it on all platforms ...) we'll propose that.