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  1. Window shading by Artichoke · · Score: 1 · on Why Free Software is a Hard Sell


    Some of us like this behaviour so much, we even use it on our Windows boxes :)

    Why? Aside from we like it (just like you like minimizing and we don't), I guess a more rational argument would be that you can just flick a window out the way and back again with less movement. So it boils down to preference and laziness.

    As for Sawfish: try messing with the key-bindings config. IIRC that's where you should look for reconfigging this behaviour. (Hang on a mo and I'll fire up the box with Sawfish on it and have a look ... ah-hah!) Yes, it goes like this:

    Fire up the Sawfish config utility (via Gnome Control Center or type sawfish-ui at a shell if you can't find it in a menu somewhere) and go to the "Bindings" set. Select the "Title" context and edit the "Button1-Off2" item so it is one of the many Maximize Window options.

    Oh, and get a life. Why should maximize be the default?

  2. Re:Works Great for me by Artichoke · · Score: 1 · on Fast Alpha-Blending In Your GUI

    You might like to try FreeShade. The next beta (due "soon") has alpha toggling/sliding. The current beta does shading (duh!), single click sinking, and various other natty doodads.

  3. Re:'What's wrong?' by Artichoke · · Score: 1 · on Fast Alpha-Blending In Your GUI

    You load that [...]
    But UI tweaks are not the sort of thing you load on someone else's box. They're for people who know what is itching and more or less know what will scratch their particular itch.

    Leaving windows transluced (?) won't be useful for 99.99999% of people. But occaisionally flicking a window translucent to see what's going on behind it, or having dialogue boxes slightly translucent or having the foreground window ever so slightly translucent so you see when that browser which is next in the Z-order has finally rendered the page...

    Blatant plug: FreeShade has all this in the forth-coming beta (due "soon"). Plenty of nice stuff in the current beta of course :)
  4. Re:Nothing new by Artichoke · · Score: 1 · on Fast Alpha-Blending In Your GUI

    So use FreeShade

    Also includes other nifties such as Always On Top, Vertical/Horizontal maximize, corner/side hugging, sink window, blah, blah, blah...

    On Osty's suggestion I've added translucency to the next beta, due "soon", along with some other more useful additions such as point and shoot move and resize (i.e. hold a hotkey down, and mouse drag will resize the window - no more moving to the caption bar).

  5. Re:Been there done that by Artichoke · · Score: 1 · on Fast Alpha-Blending In Your GUI

    Try FreeShade. In my totally unbiased *ahem* opinion, it's far sweeter :)

  6. Re:Textpad by Artichoke · · Score: 1 · on Fast Alpha-Blending In Your GUI

    This is in the next beta (due "soon") of FreeShade

    Current beta also includes other nifties such as Always On Top, Vertical/Horizontal maximize, corner/side hugging, sink window, blah, blah, blah...

    Next beta also has other additions such as point and shoot move and resize (i.e. hold a hotkey down, and mouse drag will resize the window - no more moving to the caption bar).

  7. Re:Nothing new by Artichoke · · Score: 2, Informative · on Fast Alpha-Blending In Your GUI


    For window shading try FreeShade

    Also includes other nifties such as Always On Top, Vertical/Horizontal maximize, corner/side hugging, sink window, blah, blah, blah...

    On Osty's suggestion I've added translucency to the next beta, due "soon", along with some other more useful additions such as point and shoot move and resize (i.e. hold a hotkey down, and mouse drag will move or resize the window - no more moving to the caption bar).