[Qt-qml] Semi-transparent applications

[Elliot Smith]

On Tue, 2010-11-23 at 13:16 +0000, alexis.menard at nokia.com wrote:
> On Nov 23, 2010, at 14:11, ext Elliot Smith wrote:
> > 
> > Does anyone happen to know whether there is any intention to add support
> > for transparency to the qmlviewer itself. Perhaps an option like:
> > 
> > -opacity <percent>
> > 
> > might be useful?
> 
> Actually it's not a very common use case. 
> 
> qmlviewer is a generic testing app to see qml files.
> 
> You better want to deploy your own solution with you custom executable.
> 
> Also translucent top level widgets are not very common on desktop and mobile worlds. 
> Also it involves the window manager to kick in, this is not good performance wise as well as battery life wise.

Thanks for replying Alexis, good points. A custom runner seems like the
way to go.

Elliot

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Elliot Smith
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