[maemo-developers] [Fremantle] Compositing is disabled in fullscreen

[From: Cornelius Hald]

Hi Luca,

On Fri, 2010-09-03 at 16:24 +0200, Luca Donaggio wrote:
> I know that compositing is disabled in fullscreen, as some composited
> widget (for example the fullscreen button in hildon-extras) are shown
> with a black background instead of a semi-transparent one.
> But I noticed one thing: if a hildon-banner appears in fullscreen when
> one of such widgets is on the screen, the window manager turns
> compositing on (the translucid background of the other widget is
> shown), just to turn it off when the banner disappears.
> 
> Is there a way to trick the window manager to act the same for
> arbitrary widgets as for hildon-banners?

I can't really answer your question. Just add a comment. If I'm going
into fullscreen mode in Conboy the button background is not black. It
semi-transparent. Not sure that helps something, though...

Cheers,
Conny