Andrea Cimitan (aka Cimi) of Murrine fame posted some proof-of-concept screenshots of his GTK engine with transparent background and widgets on his blog:
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This is quite an exciting step for GTK+
Up until now, all we could achieve were transparent window boarders, because they are independent from the GTK engine/theme or make the whole window transparent - including text, icons, widgets etc. making it unusable on any background that's not plain-colored.
Cimi claims it doesn't require any dirty hacks but only 10 to 20 extra lines of code.
It does require a compositing manager like Compiz to run GTK themes like this, of course.
But he also states the theme will just switch to a non-transparent version when stopping the compositing manager.
A working version of Murrine (or any other GTK engine) with such abilities has yet to be released.
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Eh... we can already do this with Compiz though. I'm not really seeing the hype.
No, we can not do this with Compiz, since Compiz is a window manager and doesn't take care of themes.
You are probably talking about the ability to decrease opacity of windows but as I already pointed out, that is only possible for the window as a whole.
What theme are you using on the screenshots?
I dont need the transparency but just the theme.. :)
Thanks.
The second one is MurrinaFancyCandy - you can get it here: http://murrine.netsons.org/?q=last_node/story
Please note those are screenshots by the author himself.
Follow the link to his blog to check 'em out.
Hi,
Great site! Love the cube compiz tutorials. Quick question re. the above screen shots. What music player is that? I went to the authors site but I do not speak french :(
Thanks!
Thanks! Sorry for the language mix-up :/
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Excellent !!!! I want this !!!!