Flickr user joergermeister wanted a really original desktop, so he decided to ... for Windows 7 to make the UI elements transparent. The Token icon set for the Windows Taskbar.

For a couple of decades, researchers have tried to blend shared workspaces -- systems that allow two or more people to ... feed with a transparent image of a computer desktop into one full-screen ...

While you have Show desktop transparent vertical bar at the right ... it appears that there are some who miss the old Show desktop icon which appeared on the left side of the taskbar.