composite and window translucency/shadow

[Anders Storsveen]

Anders Storsveen wrote:

>Anders Storsveen wrote:
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>>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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since I have a tendency not to give up very easily, I have made some
screenshots to explaing what I mean with the shadow bitmap being behind
the window and messing up the transparency:

two pictures with the excact same settings:
http://huldreveien.generation.no/~wakko/non-shadowed.jpg
http://huldreveien.generation.no/~wakko/shadowed.jpg
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