Transparent windows?

[Patrick Siglin]

Tony Arnold wrote:
> Morten W. J. wrote:
>   
>> On Tuesday 04 April 2006 11:59, Chanchao wrote:
>>
>>
>>     
>>> Will the new version of Gnome (and therefore Dapper) offer transparent
>>> windows for any window?
>>>
>>> (It's useless of course, but looks cool on screen shots, and competing
>>> OS'es have it)
>>>       
>> Wauw!! What OS'es?
>>     
>
> OS/X on the Max does it. The Mac users I know think it's useful, but
> don't ask me why!
>
> Regards,
> Tony.
>   
same reason we think having xgl + compiz to make a cube is useful. 
Coolness factor. 8-)