[webkit-dev] Transparency on GTK/DirectFB

[Christian Dywan]

Am Wed, 24 Sep 2008 15:16:24 -0700
schrieb Darin Adler <darin at apple.com>:

> On Sep 24, 2008, at 3:10 PM, Weber, Bernd wrote:
> 
> > The holy grail however would be to achieve transparency to the  
> > underlying desktop, by defining “transparent” as the background
> > color.
> 
> WebKit definitely supports this. It's used this way in the Mac OS X  
> Dashboard.
> 
> > I’m not sure whether Webkit, especially with GTK/DirectFB,
> > supports this right now.
> 
> I don't know if the GTK/DirectFB port supports it. That's a question  
> for someone else.

Take a look at the headers. There's no other documentation at this
point but it should be intuitive enough for most of what we have.

webkit_web_view_set_transparent

You will want that. And make sure you have an ARGB colour map on your
window, ie. when you create your toplevel window.

ciao,
    Christian