Semi-transparent notifications for Exaile
Posted by Sayamindu 1 year, 7 months ago
I have been playing around with Cairo for some days, and yesterday I came up with a patch to implement semi transparent OSD support in Exaile. It still needs a lot more polish, and suggestions on how to do that would be really helpful :-). Also, I would love to get the patch tested on older systems which do not have support for COMPOSITE (and if possible, on Windows as well). Here’s how the existing implementation looks in my system:


Why not just use the free desktop notifications for this?
Exaile does have a plugin which uses notification daemon to provide notifications. The user is free to choose :-).