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Qalculate / qalculate-gtk

Qalculate! GTK+ UI
https://qalculate.github.io/
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Feature request: transparency #142

Open BYT3M3 opened 4 years ago

BYT3M3 commented 4 years ago

Dear maintainer

Thank you for Qalculate, it's been my calculator of choice for years! I would really love it if there were an option to make the window transparent, so that I can easily read numbers from another program and type them into qalculate.

Thanks again for the great app!

hanna-kn commented 4 years ago

Transparency would be difficult to implement and would not be supported on all platforms. The expression entry would still need to be opaque (at least not fully transparent).

I think it would be better to minimize the size of the window as much as possible (it should already be relatively small when keypad and history are hidden, but it is certainly possible to implement a mode with even more parts temporarily hidden). The user can put the window in a corner and use the "always on top" option of the operating system/desktop environment/window manager.

hanna-kn commented 4 years ago

I have now implemented a minimal window mode (the result view is also displayed when not empty):

minimal_mode