Panel Opacity

[slow narwhal]

Does anyone have a way or an app to make the icons on the panel & the panel decrease in opacity when I haven't clicked on them for a while

[noble meteor]

u can auto hide the panel if u want

[daring rose]

Seems that the panels are drawn by muffin as a special layer that is flagged as a dock\panel, so its protected from external settings like transparency that you could apply to other normal windows.

[noble meteor]

but still there r extensions like 'cinnamon blur' that can alter the blurriness of the panel

[daring rose]

sure but not the icons right?

[noble meteor]

nope

[daring rose]

REally?

[noble meteor]

nah i mean the icons cant

[daring rose]

Yeah

I do have an idea though.

you could capture the desktop background behind the pannel

then draw that, at a certain opacity over the panel with OpenGL or somthing that doesn't create a window and just draws to the screen.

this way you wouldn't mess with the panel its self.

[noble meteor]

yes it can be done

but the current panel in cinnamon cant

[daring rose]

Does it not allow you to draw graphics directly over it?

I haven't messed with any Direct drawing API like X11 or OpenGL

Umm I hear that it doesn't allow even that...

I guess you have 2 options, either ||create a custom panel some how ||
Or make an extension that can some how say: "Hey, panel use this new css theme for all of your icon entries."

[noble meteor]

i dont think it has a flag for that

the icon thingy