Semi-Translucent Shadowed Kicker Panel

A script to make the desktop panel semi-translucent, reflective, with a shadow.
Results in a very cool and modern desktop look, while staying sobre.
Version 2.0.

Supported screen resolutions:
- 800x600 pixels
- 1024x768 pixels
- 1152x864 pixels
- 1280x960 pixels
- 1280x1024 pixels
- 1600x1200 pixels

Supported panel positions:
- On bottom of the screen
- On top of the screen

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== How to Use It: ==
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1. Click or double-click the icon "double-click_me.bash" in Konqueror to run it.

2. Indicate the image you want to use as the desktop background.

3. If after that process you do not see the translucent panel, reply "No" to the
question that the wizard will ask you.
You will be redirected to the Panel Configuration window and guided through
the steps of making the panel 100% transparent.

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== How Does it Work? ==
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With the current KDE 3 panel it is not possible to make semi-translucent panels.
All you can do with recent XOrg versions is make the whole panel transparent at
a determined percentage.
This is bad looking.

The script change the desktop background image to also include a pre-computed
image of a fake translucent-panel with a shadow.
Since you make the panel background 100% transparent it will use the desktop
as the background.
And the desktop background below the panel is precisely a pre-computer
background-image with semi-translucent fake of panel!

The magic is in the desktop background image.

An image is worth thousand words: open the patched background image and you will
understand imediatly the trick.
The patched image is the image you chosen, but followed with the suffix
"_pacthed".

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== Want Better Control? ==
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In the "Themes/White Round Glass/SVG" folder you will find the SVG source of the
panel at different resolutions.
The base that served to produce all those SVG files is SOURCE__top_1024x768.svg.

Once you modified the images as you want, in Inkscape, you can export the SVG
document into PNG. Make sure you save your image in the right theme folder and
you follow the convention of naming it "bottom" or "top", followed by an
underscore ("_"), followed by the screen resolution (the two numbers should be
separated with the letter "x"), ended by the ".png" extension.
The naming is important for the script to be able to find the right images.

In the future, I could provide a wide variety of colors, forms and panel sizes.
If you've made great-looking panels, please mail them to me.
If you mail them me I will include your one in the archive, with your name, of
course.

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== About the Author ==
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Sebastien Laout.
Website: http://slaout.linux62.org/
Mail: slaout@linux62.org
Also the author of BasKet Note Pads: http://basket.kde.org/


Help appreciated to create the images for more resolutions, more Kicker sizes, more colors and more forms.

=== VERSION 2.0 ===
- Added support for 5 new screen resolutions!
Supported screen sizes are now 800x600, 1024x768, 1152x864, 1280x960, 1280x1024 and 1600x1200 pixels.
The script automatically detects your screen resolution.
- The background image is automatically resized to fill all the screen.
- Added an information dialog-box to help configure the Kicker to be 100% transparent.
- Added a progressbar because now the process is slower if the image have to be resized

=== VERSION 1.0 ===
- Initial version, White Round Glass theme.
- Only supports 1024x768 screen resolution, with Kicker on bottom or on top.