Transparency of Background in Fields

[Sivakatirswami]

Is there a feature request in already to the blend property of just the 
background of fields?  i.e we want the type to remain 100 opaque will 
setting some transparency to the background.  Of course this can be 
accomplished with a background field underneath and the field on top 
being completely transparent, but this is such a "kludge" and an 
unexpected gap in functionality for newbies coming from a more 
sophisticated page layout and graphics world, not to speak of the added 
layer of scripting need if one gets into geometry changes on resize.