Thanks for replying pichlo and coderus;

I guess the answer is no, coderus. When I open the camera directly after applying the patch, the theme opacity is gone, as I intended it to be.

I think pichlo has answered my question really, as in the fact that if a restart is needed, then patchmanager will highlight that option in the pulley menu - so it appears that it's not really something that author has control over.

Ta