Add transparent colour option

[amankhoza]

If possible it would be cool if the flashing of the text colour could be set to transparent so that it takes the colour of the current panel/background colour.

[amankhoza]

For anyone who's interested I have a quick fix for this:

In this._toggleStyle in extension.js change the commented out line to the one below it:

// let userStyle = "color: " + settings.get_string(SETTING_COLOR);
let userStyle = "color: transparent";

If I have time in the future I might find a way of adding a transparent option in the preferences for the extension and open a PR, but for now this does the job for me. Works great with extensions like Dynamic top bar.

[bellini666]

@amankhoza it's nice that you found a workaround. The major problem here is that the extension uses the Gtk.ColorButton widget which doesn't have a transparent option there.

One way of doing that would be to add a boolean option in the preferences to set the color do transparent. That would set the colorbutton insensitive while it is set and your code would be applied to the main code inside an if/else for that option.

[amankhoza]

If anyone is interested in implementing this, this extension has the exact same color picker popup and has an option for transparent color. Seems to be making use of alpha.

https://github.com/sustmi/gnome-shell-extension-windowoverlay-icons