enhancement request: please add a means to lock the transparency of the panel so it does NOT go opaque when you mouse over it. i find the flashing effect you get as you move you mouse on and off the panel not desiderable. i would like to lock down the transparency so it stays that way always. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. svn revision 19776
http://forum.xfce.org/index.php?topic=2340.0 yes! please add this patch to svn, or something similar. http://forum.xfce.org/index.php?topic=2340.msg10144#msg10144 specifically: http://home.quicknet.nl/qn/prive/nickschermer/xfce/xfce4-panel-enter-leave-transparency.patch.bz2
I don't want anything to do with this, this patch has been rejected before and I'm fine with that. If you don't like it (or maybe even hate it) feel free to close this bug Jasper.
i would be content with a simple yes/no check box "panel goes opaque on mouse-over" or something similar. it was not my intention to ressurect a previously rejected patch, or to restart old arguments. nick's patch coincidentally happened to address my concerns. please consider doing something along these lines. the flashing effect stands out as an ergonomic problem for my tired old eyes.
(In reply to comment #2) > I don't want anything to do with this, this patch has been rejected before and > I'm fine with that. If you don't like it (or maybe even hate it) feel free to > close this bug Jasper. Hehe. No worries. I can't remember why I rejected it, so I will look at it again. No promisses though...
Since I've got my own space on Espresso: http://foo-projects.org/~nick/patches/
See also bug #1216
I'm considering a checkbox. I'm not sure about the best text. Some quick ideas: "[ ] Use transparency for active panel" "[x] Active panel is not transparent." "[x] Remove transparency for active panel" Any suggestions?
Personally I'd prefer the 2 sliders because it's compact and it gives you the most flexibility (and it looks cool in my dialog mockups ^_^), but I you want to "lock" the transparency you can use a checkbox with something like "Use transparency when hover panel": | None --####--------------------- Full | | 20 | | [x] Use transparency when hover panel | But that's just my 0,02...
Or: [x] Active panel is opaque. with a default of Yes/Checked to be consistent with current behavior. Unchecked it would retain the transparency setting when active.
Nick, > "[x] Use transparency when hover panel" That's not correct English. Also, think of the translators, I think this will quickly become a lot of text to explain in many languages. Philip, > "[x] Active panel is opaque" Yeah, I like that one. I was afraid 'opaque' might be a bit uncommon or difficult, especially for non-native speakers, but on the other hand I think xfwm uses it as well.
> That's not correct English. Also, think of the translators, I think this will > quickly become a lot of text to explain in many languages. I'll probably never speak English very well... Thanks for telling me ^_~. Probably just a couple of words like for, while, if, else, select and case :P. > "[x] Active panel is opaque" That a lot better but opaque isn't very translatable IMHO (nl: ondoorzichtig). You can use an antonym and invert the checkbox behaviour, because transparent or translucent are more common in this case (maybe take a look in KDE and friends?). Anyway this will probably end in an endless debate, so use the opaque version...
Done. Thanks for the input.
it works well. thanks for your efforts. phil