Hi all, I managed to put together a quick hack of the keramik theme with the translucent kicker for those that are interested. Thanks to Carsten and grepper for their assistance. You can apt-get it from here: deb http://www.inetontario.com/~tcharron/keramik/ ./ It's called keramik-trans. You'll need to restart kde to get the trans kicker though. Todd