<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>Hi Plasma world,<br></div>As new shadow lands in KDE 4.10 RC1, some unintentional mess is introduced.<br><br><a href="https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=311502">https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=311502</a><br>
<a href="https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=311995">https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=311995</a><br><br></div>And it affects some more components, at least including kmix osd, brightness osd, icontasks.<br><br>The problem is, custom widget using plasma svg doesn't get new shadow support automatically, some code must be written.<br>
<br></div><div>I observe that some components get necessary modifications, for example krunner, while also quite a few of them still not.<br><br></div><div>What make this problem worse is, the necessary class for shadow is not public. And AFAIK there are already 3 copies of same code across different kde projects (kdelibs/plasma/private/dialogshadows , kde-workspace/libs/plasmagenericshell/panelshadows, and one of my own in kdeplasma-addons), plasmagenericshell is a shared library but it doesn't install header..<br>
<br></div><div>I think some action need to be taken before the release, some possible solutions.<br></div><div>1. Revert the changes of new plasma air theme, so old shadow can be used. and try to fix all the things in KDE 4.11<br>
</div><div>or 2. get some header exposed to avoid duplication of the code, and fixed every custom widget, at least including: kwin, kmix, powerdevil, icontasks.<br><br></div><div>I can give out my help for fix those, but some decision still need to be made (add new header to kdelibs or kde-workspace).<br>
<br></div><div>Regards<br></div></div>