Panel transparent?

Micro420 · 09-15-2003, 07:56 PM

I went to the student computer store and saw the Mac OS X and I noticed their panel on the bottom can be transparent. Can us Mandrake users do that? I know you can make the menus transparent, but I want the panel on the bottom to be transparent. It looks so cool!

bigVoice · 09-15-2003, 08:39 PM

The most common way of doing this is to:
1) open your wallpaper in your favourite photo-editor
2) crop all but the last 50 px of height (or however tall your taskbar is
3) adjust the brightness to your liking
4) use that picture as the background of your panel*

Also, check out the Karamba and SuperKaramba projects at KDE look.

Good luck!

* to add the pic do right-click on taskbar --> configure panel --> appearance

Micro420 · 09-15-2003, 09:26 PM

I just found out about Karamba and it looks SOOO cool! However, I tried installing it but I don't know what I'm doing.

I went to the guy's website, http://www.efd.lth.se/~d98hk/karamba/ ,and looked at his instructions for installation.

In his system requirements, he he has a few things listed that are needed. I think I have everything because when I go to the Mandrake Control Center and go to Remove RPM's (just to see if it's installed or not), everything seems to be there. Yet when I follow his command line text he gives me, ./configure && make, I get all these texts. Then I see some ERRORS written there so I assume it did not work.

I REALLY want to get Karamba working since it looks so cool and I want to show it off to my friends to blow off WIndows XP. Can you help???

tickleboy · 09-15-2003, 11:21 PM

I would recommend getting SuperKaramba.... you can pick up the RPMs from www.kdelook.org which makes installation super easy. I've played around with it a bit but it's still pretty early in the development stage to be really easy to use. But if you have the time to hack around with it... it definitely looks cool!

Micro420 · 09-16-2003, 12:28 PM

you are a genius!! This is what I'm talking about when Linux should make it simple to install stuff. With SuperKaramba, I just downloded the Mandrake version, double clicked it, typed SuperKaramba in the RUN command and BAM! it worked!

I am now using a Max OS theme on my PC. Beautiful!

EnVoy · 09-16-2003, 01:13 PM

The Mac OSX can't make the dock (panel) transparent (at least in the current version, 10.2.6). It takes a 3rd party app to do it. I think it's called "ClearDock".

Just FYI.....

Micro420 · 09-16-2003, 04:22 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by EnVoy
The Mac OSX can't make the dock (panel) transparent (at least in the current version, 10.2.6). It takes a 3rd party app to do it. I think it's called "ClearDock".

Just FYI.....

Well in that case, my GUI looks so much better than OS X (although I showed my friend already and she says it looks practically the same! haha!).