Here is a screenshot from the Mandrake site. I want my desktop to have the transparent windows!! Is that Superkaramba? I have Superkaramba but I don't know how to make it look like this. Someone guide me please!!

http://images.mandrakesoft.com/img/s...dk100-scr1.jpg

Yeah, they are using Superkaramba, you may need to look for the themes at kde-look.org. As for the transparency, I think you can do it with xcompmgr.

For most of what you see on that screenshot, you can achieve by going into "look and feel".

You will find this in start-system-configuration-configure your desktop

To make the menus transparent, click on "style" then "enable GUI effects" Then click on the "menu effect" dropdown box and select "make translucent". You will then be able to adjust the translucency parameters below it.

To make the kicker bar tranparent or any shade of translucency, Click on "panels" then click on "appearance" In the Box that says "panel background" click on the box that says "enable rtansparency". Then you can adjust its transparency by clicking on the "advanced options" tab.

You will also notice up the top before you click on the advanced tab that there is a check box called "enable icon zooming" You may like to try this also.

All of what i just said can be done without superkaramba. If you want the weather and information menus you see on the screenshot you will have to install superkarama though.

Hope this helped, Cheers

After a while you'll discover that the transparent menus can be really annoying as legibility is decreased.

Also on that screen the panel bar has not been made fully transparent...

e.g. he still has the task manager runnning in it... the slider buttons are visible, etc.

With KDE 3.2 but expecially with 3.3.x you can take things far further than this...

Check out GLOcean at kde-look.... plus a wealth of other widgets, do-dads and other gizmos you can add which are guaranteed to suck the CPU cycle life out of your system....

how we make a taskbar or panel like he did in gnome or kde???

http://www.deviantart.com/view/15956546/

Thanks all for your suggestions!! I'm ging try them all as soon as possible.

so nobody knows how to make a taskbar like this in gnome???

That would be Enlightenment. The latest cvs has a dock like program that you see on the bottom there.
If you're using kde, I'd look for KXDocker.

There was also a Superkaramba OS-X like application that did the same thing.

It was smooth and worked rather well...

After the novelty wore off I went back to my transparent KDE menu... much more efficient.