On Apr 28, 2008, at 11:08 AM, Niels Kobschaetzki wrote:
On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 2:53 PM, Baluta Cristian cristi.baluta@gmail.com wrote:
If you want usability, use opaque backgrounds, no offence.
I regularly need a transparent background in my terminal or text-editor for seeing what is behind and getting information from it- you just have to have the settings right for getting not disturbed by it.
This hits the nail on the head. I like my terminals transparent, because I often have multiple terminals open sometimes with one running in the background. If you can see through the top layer, you get visual feedback when a process completes. But it's inconvenient to have a semi-transparent background, because then you have text on text action which is very confusing. If the top layer is transparent but blurs the background you get the visual feedback with out the confusing jumble of letters.
Incidentally, it's kind of funny that you found blurminal via this tutorial. In fact, Ciarán Walsh (who is rather active round here) wrote this plugin after my request in ##textmate. Here is his original post on the matter: http://ciaranwal.sh/2007/11/16/blurminal