[maemo-developers] Home plugin transparency

[From: Alfredo J. Fabretti]

On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 5:22 PM, Hannes Wallnoefer <hannes at helma.at> wrote:
>
>  have a look at this thread:
>
>  http://www.internettablettalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=16720
>
>  If you just want on/off transparancy, you could try using
>  shape_combine_mask() on the home item with a partly transparent image.
>  But if you want real alpha compositing you may want to use cairo.
>  These examples are written in Python, but they should work in C as
>  well:
>
>  http://www.internettablettalk.com/forums/showpost.php?p=151583&postcount=17
>  http://www.internettablettalk.com/forums/showpost.php?p=151880&postcount=19
>
>  hope that helps
>  hannes


Thanks a lot, that put me in the right direction.
Here is a good example in C:

http://fredmorcos.blogspot.com/2007/02/little-cgtkcairo-example.html