[patch] Murrine GTK RGBA transparency support

[Andrew Starr-Bochicchio]

The Murrine GTK engine now can use RGBA transparency. A patch has been written to allow Exaile to take advantage of this when using a GTK engine with RGBA support. See link bellow:

http://www.cimitan.com/murrine/node/96

[Johannes Sasongko (sjohannes)]

The patch still needs work because: (1) it hijacks the OSD code to modify the main window; (2) according to the description, it breaks the tray icon (whatever plugins add tray icons would also be broken).

To be honest I don't think changing every single app for this is a good idea. This kind of stuff needs to be done from GTK+. There's some discussion in http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=516885

[Lucazade (lucazade)]

Hi all!
I've released a new version of the RGBA patch for exaile (0.2.12b)

Changes:
- Fixed trayicon support
- OSD hijack no more needed!

http://www.cimitan.com/murrine/files/exaile_v02.patch.tar.bz2

let me know if ok.. i'm going to do a stress-test to see if it's fully working :)

[Daniele Gramola (daniele-gramola)]

Which file do I have to patch? I tried /usr/share/exaile/xl/gui/main.py but then exaile doesn't open...

[Mathias Brodala (mathbr)]

> Which file do I have to patch? I tried /usr/share/exaile/xl/gui/main.py
> but then exaile doesn't open...

Because the patch is outdated. A patch updated to the latest trunk (r1639) is attached.

[Daniele Gramola (daniele-gramola)]

It gives me an error: failed at 892...

[Mathias Brodala (mathbr)]

> It gives me an error: failed at 892...

Then you must be doing something wrong. It works just fine here:

$ bzr co lp:exaile exaile
You have not informed bzr of your launchpad login. If you are attempting a
write operation and it fails, run "bzr launchpad-login YOUR_ID" and try again.
$ cd exaile/
$ patch -p0 <../exaile_rgba_colormap.patch
patching file xl/gui/main.py
$

[reacocard (reacocard)]

patch no longer works against trunk.

[Johannes Sasongko (sjohannes)]

I believe Mathias Brodala applied this as a hidden preference in 0.3.