Editing group-app.xml from desktop

So i've been tinkering with this, attempting to get the panels to display no background at all (ie, be transparant); but moving the images away simply doesn't work as the panels still show a blue background (all of them). Could I simply replace, say, blue-bk.png with a transparant png?

 

if your transparent background work give it to me...

 

There is a fella here in the "Show your Desktop" thread who has managed to have transparent backgrounds. It looks really good. It would be nice if he would share it with us.

Check it out: http://www.aspireoneuser.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=410&p=27913#p27913

 

yes i see! but its a fake just photoshop work for a simuled transparency! i want a real transparency!

 

I finally found a way to create transparent panels on my default desktop. I edited the /usr/share/backgrounds/images/blue-bk.png image, cut out the middle and painted it transparent with KolourPaint. I then save it as /usr/share/backgrounds/images/transparent-bk.png. The I modified group ids 1-4 in group-app.xml to point to this image.

However, the panels are displayed correctly only after using the switch-desktop option to switch out and back again. (see http://www.aspireoneuser.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=1525)

As far as I can tell, the desktop panels get drawn without restoring the background area to the original backgound, so the the background for transparent images are not predictable.

 

what is a switch desktop option to switch out and back again????

how I can do it?
I tryed to make the backgrounds transparents (87% transp.) (and the rebooted) but they don't work correctly...

 

For Switch Desktop see http://www.aspireoneuser.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=1525.
If you look carefully at my panels you will notice that the backgrounds are slightly off. By the way, I used 100 % transparency.