composite and window translucency/shadow

[Anders Storsveen]

Philip Rodrigues 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!
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>You mean like a shadow of a real object, which is a grey copy of the object
>casting the shadow? ;-). Anyway, you should report the issue as a wishlist
>to bugs.kde.org, where an appropriate developer can take a look at it. (I'm
>not very familiar with the translucency stuff, but is the shadowing done by
>xcompmgr or some other non-KDE thing? If so, it wouldn't be a KDE issue.
>ICBW on that though.)
>
>Regards,
>Philip
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shadows are done with kompmgr, it's a kde thing
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