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[Matt Richardson <m.richardson.1990@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Trouble is that alpha and blur on window title bars could become very 
heavy when working with multiple non-maximised windows.

On 30/10/11 10:01, frederik.nnaji@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 10:17, Matt Richardson 
> <m.richardson.1990@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> <mailto:m.richardson.1990@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>
>     I love this idea so I did some mockups:
>
>     Desktop <http://ubuntuone.com/6Oysw1NarMc480p07l7wIm>
>     Dash <http://ubuntuone.com/6NLh3oKNIJ0ALbfyRoogv5>
>     Window Theme <http://ubuntuone.com/05Hl8aeQbAMt5avbm3uMLm>
>     Indicator Menu <http://ubuntuone.com/6zGYwEXymv7HvbN8Y6PYD6>
>
>     I recommend downloading the attachments and viewing them
>     fullscreen to get a real idea.
>     The window theme and the indicator menu are not transparent, but I
>     don't think they need to be either. In this particular case
>     transparency adds graphical requirement without achieving a great
>     deal IMHO. I think that an opaque theme which dynamically matches
>     the background colour would work just as well.
>
>     Thoughts?
>
>
> fake transparency is what this method has been called for long.
> I still prefer some alpha, perhaps with blur..