Kinda Seven Panel

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5.0

Description:

42 pixel panel background, looks kinda windows 7 ;-) - works for smaller ones, but not for biggers.

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daenuprobst
9 years ago

Sorry guys, forgot to mention that i played around with the color-chooser as well :-)

im new to the unix world (after 7 years of .NET developement and still doing this for work) id like to learn something new, and more important different.. :-) btw: is there any "plan" to make the panel really transparent... not that pseudo transparent (where the windows behind the panel vanish)?

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BobCFC
9 years ago

If you want really transparent panel try installing Docky in panel mode or DockbarX and also maybe enable the Blur Plugin in Compiz.

You might need to install compizconfig-settings-manager to play with the blur effect.

Docky FTW

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Oversword
9 years ago

I used to have compiz settings with a transparent panel but i forgot about it. I'll have a look at the settings.

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daenuprobst
9 years ago

how to: http://www.webupd8.org/2009/12/true-transparency-for-gnome-panel.html

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Oversword
9 years ago

Thanks, i managed to post a reply on a comment above instead of this one but oh well.

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BobCFC
9 years ago

This works great on the themes that have transparent backgrounds for the window list items or the application menu, but some themes such as the default in Lucid override the colour

Themes which work so far include Dust Sand and Unified. I'm sure we could hack any gtk theme to remove the relevant lines about the panels.

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Oversword
9 years ago

Those themes aren't image based so it's pretty hard to extract the right part to change in a image based theme. I just got Gnome Colour Chooser from your code, how do you change it so it's transparent with that?

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BobCFC
9 years ago

The colour chooser was just to set the text colour to white, the transparency depends on the theme

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Oversword
9 years ago

Thanks for that, all i needed was (class=Gnome-panel) and i knew how to do the rest. That does kinda make all the stuff i've done to my themes useless though :P

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daenuprobst
9 years ago

Well it's just a guess, but I think there are some applets that don't get transparent, but if you mean the menu, it's dockbarx with some nice theme I found here... or on deviantart... shinybar or something like that.

btw. Picard. Kirks a bitch :-)

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Oversword
9 years ago

I did some messed up stuff to get it to work. First i took a look at the gtk files and took out a few lines i thought would take away the bg, then i used colour chooser and changed the Image BG for the panel but selected none and all the applets have gone the same transparency as the rest of it. Only way i could do it in a pixmap theme, I'll figure out which lines i took out.

And yeah, Picard is way better.

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BobCFC
9 years ago

Also, you might want to install this to set the text colour to white in the panel:

sudo apt-get install gnome-color-chooser

Set the forground colour to white on the panel tab then click apply

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