composite and window translucency/shadow

[Anders Storsveen]

Anders Storsveen wrote:

>Anders Storsveen wrote:
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>>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!
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>>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! ;)
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>>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.
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>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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yet another suggestion, popup-windows should have it's own setting...
because it would be nice to have them a little transparent. I think some
osx popups have that too.

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