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I know that the Aurora engine has something kind of like this (when hovering over widgets, there are two steps in drawing the highlight). Judging from the fact that checkboxes and radiobuttons can fade, I would also venture a guess that it wouldn't be too terribly difficult to do with Cairo. The only thing is that it might cause a fair amount of overhead, which would be completely counter to what Murrine is all about.