Murrine – now with transparency
December 14, 2007 at 7:53 pm | Posted in programs, xubuntu | 4 CommentsTags: alpha, cimi, experimental, gtk, gtk themes, Murrine, programs, themes, theming, transparency, xubuntu
Ryan Paul reports that Andrea Cimitan, developer of GTK theme engine Murrine, has added support for transparent widgets. Yep. This means that themes using this engine can now be partly transparent.
If you want to see what it looks like, go and see Cimi’s blogpost. Yes, it does look beautiful.
The Murrine engine is used by Xubuntu since 7.10 “Gutsy Gibbon”, for the MurrinaStormCloud theme. This probably means that, in future versions, Xubuntu, too, can enjoy transparency. “But what if your computer does not support it?”, I hear you asking. Well, no worries there:
The translucency effects obviously require a compositing window manager, but the theme engine is designed so that the widgets will simply be rendered without transparency when no compositing window manager is present.
And if that wasn’t enough, in a last note, Cimi points out:
And yes, it is FAST!
I can’t wait 
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Cool, but too bad I’ve stopped using Murrina themes. I’ve moved on to the Nodoka engine.
Comment by xubuntu— December 14, 2007 #
It’s useless moving to the nodoka engine, which is buggied (has few bugs resolved in the new murrine), has 99% the same code of murrine (just use hilight_ratio = 0.909090 and you’ll get the nodoka engine)
Comment by Andrea "Cimi" Cimitan— December 15, 2007 #
Thanks for the info Cimi. It’s just that Murrine is too glossy and Candido is too bland for me. Nodoka is just right.
Comment by xubuntu— December 15, 2007 #
can i change the transparency? on rgba windows??
Comment by 95monye— June 2, 2009 #