# Translucid background in the dockers when placed on the sides

**URL:** <https://krita-artists.org/t/translucid-background-in-the-dockers-when-placed-on-the-sides/64465>\
**Category:** Feature Requests\
**Tags:** for-ui-ux\
**Created:** [April 27, 2023, 9:39pm UTC](https://krita-artists.org/t/translucid-background-in-the-dockers-when-placed-on-the-sides/64465 "2023-04-27T21:39:33Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![ROARTINKER](https://krita-artists.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/ed655f/32.png) [@ROARTINKER](https://krita-artists.org/u/ROARTINKER)\
**Post date:** [April 27, 2023, 9:39pm UTC](https://krita-artists.org/t/translucid-background-in-the-dockers-when-placed-on-the-sides/64465/1 "2023-04-27T21:39:33Z")

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Hello again.  
I guess this is more complicated than it seems, yet it would be great to have translucid background (or perhaps retractable dockers) on the sides so the canvas can be less visually restrained, especially if someone is using a 4:3 monitor.  
Well, here’s an image that explains it better.  
Thank you.

 ![IdeasParaMejorarKrita.Arthur_Página 8](https://krita-artists.org/uploads/default/original/3X/8/4/84c60c4ba101a05ee648717494a51f0c50f77524.jpeg)  
 ![IdeasParaMejorarKrita.Arthur_Página 9](https://krita-artists.org/uploads/default/original/3X/1/5/155d1981fc76a78388f8951f418c2ced4914df2a.jpeg)

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**Author:** ![Michelist](https://krita-artists.org/user_avatar/krita-artists.org/michelist/32/65826_2.png) [@Michelist](https://krita-artists.org/u/Michelist)\
**Post date:** [April 28, 2023, 3:24am UTC](https://krita-artists.org/t/translucid-background-in-the-dockers-when-placed-on-the-sides/64465/2 "2023-04-28T03:24:02Z")

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I have seen this once from a user that is currently on a hiatus, makes an unknown period of holidays from the forum, so this is possible. If it is easy, I don’t know.

If the two very new plugins from @freyalupen can achieve this too, I don’t know, but it may be worth to check it out if they are.

You’ll find them here:

> [@Plugin: Theme Creator Extension](https://krita-artists.org/t/plugin-theme-creator-extension/62953):
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> Theme Creator: This plugin allows to create a basic version of a color Theme file, with (not completely accurate) previewing of it while choosing colors. Creating the theme by picking colors, and previewing their effect: The preview is inaccurate because it won’t update all widgets or properly reflect the colors for selected/disabled states, and it doesn’t account for special blending effects. The resulting exported theme’s actual appearance (after restarting Krita,…

And here:

> [@Plugin: Style Sheet Loader Extension](https://krita-artists.org/t/plugin-style-sheet-loader-extension/62955):
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> Style Sheet Loader: This plugin allows to load a Qt Style Sheet and apply it to Krita’s UI. The style sheet’s filepath can be remembered and automatically loaded on startup. Loading an example stylesheet, before (regular UI): After, with custom styling. (I didn’t have or make a proper stylesheet to test with, so this is just randomly-pasted-together example code. Sorry it looks so ugly!): This shows off various things stylesheets can …

But if they can do the trick, you have to find out by yourself.

Michelist

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**Author:** ![freyalupen](https://krita-artists.org/user_avatar/krita-artists.org/freyalupen/32/47913_2.png) [@freyalupen](https://krita-artists.org/u/freyalupen)\
**Post date:** [April 28, 2023, 4:01am UTC](https://krita-artists.org/t/translucid-background-in-the-dockers-when-placed-on-the-sides/64465/3 "2023-04-28T04:01:16Z")

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Setting widget opacity can’t be done with themes; I don’t think it can be done with stylesheets, but I am not too sure.

Making floating dockers transparent can be done with a script like this:

```auto
from krita import *

dockers = Krita().activeWindow().dockers()

for docker in dockers:
    # 1.0 = opaque, 0.0 = transparent
    docker.setWindowOpacity(.9)

```

But making docked dockers transparent would be something entirely different, since normally there is nothing behind them to show.

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**Author:** ![ROARTINKER](https://krita-artists.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/ed655f/32.png) [@ROARTINKER](https://krita-artists.org/u/ROARTINKER)\
**Post date:** [April 28, 2023, 4:25pm UTC](https://krita-artists.org/t/translucid-background-in-the-dockers-when-placed-on-the-sides/64465/4 "2023-04-28T16:25:29Z")

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Thank you very much @Michelist . I’ll investigate.

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**Author:** ![ROARTINKER](https://krita-artists.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/ed655f/32.png) [@ROARTINKER](https://krita-artists.org/u/ROARTINKER)\
**Post date:** [April 28, 2023, 4:28pm UTC](https://krita-artists.org/t/translucid-background-in-the-dockers-when-placed-on-the-sides/64465/5 "2023-04-28T16:28:53Z")

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Wow, thank you a lot for all the description. I’ll try it.