composite and window translucency/shadow

[Anders Storsveen]

Anders Storsveen wrote:

>I found one serious defect with the transparency/shadow effect in kde!
>if you use a shadow in conjunction with the transparency you will get a
>darker transparancy, because apparently the shadow is a black
>semi-transparent copy of the window which is just a little bigger than
>the original window! this is really stupid, and the shadow should only
>be drawn outside the window, and not behind it! It makes everything look
>gray and dull! And I want to use both...
>Also it looks like shadows are much more cpu intensive than transparancy
>and effects, maybe limiting the drawing to only around the window, like
>a new border would help that along also!
>
>Also another thing is that, making the shadows bigger than about 2-3
>just washes them out... they get so thinly shadowed that they dissapear
>which isn't what I would want. I would like to have a bigger shadow on
>my active windows to give the effect of it being higher above the
>desktop, and inactive ones being lower... however, like this it seems
>that the shadow gets removed when I get them active. What could be done
>is add another option to control shadow "filling" to choose how dark it
>should be, so when upping the size you also up the degree of darkness or
>filling. Or another algorithm that compensates for it automatically, so
>what you get is actually a larger shadow! ;)
>
>On a positive note though, it works really great now with the new
>drivers! The only technical problems I have with them is that X just
>quits if I press view on a "new message" bubble in kopete, it has been
>like this for a while ( with old drivers too), and the second is that
>sometimes when I apply changes to the Translucency tab it locks up.
>Other than that stability has greatly improved!
>Hope someone can do something about this! other than that it's getting
>along great! ;)
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I just thought of two more additions, I think there could be a toggle to
still treat a window as active while popups and windows inside the same
app appears.

And secondly, treat kicker as a seperate thing, so you could still have
a transparent kicker while the icons on it are non-transparent! (this
one is probably a little harder though)
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