Minor issue with Panel corners

[James Richard Tyrer]

Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> On Wednesday 02 April 2008, James Richard Tyrer wrote:
>> Should I write a bug report for this?
> 
> that would be because it is using an svg that doesn't cover the whole panel 
> (the black bit in the corner) but there isn't a composition manager (CM) 
> running.

That is odd; I thought that I had everything in X11 set up correctly. 
However, it only it only works with KDE4 if I set "Compositing type" to 
"XRender" which isn't the default.

> the solution we have to this is providing svg's that do cover the full area of 
> the widget in the opaque/ folder of the theme. i don't think we ship a file 
> in opaque/widgets/panel-background.svg and so you get the one that really 
> only works with a CM.
> 
> solution: make a square edged svg and put it in opaque =)

Seriously, if we need this, I will make one tomorrow if I have time.

> what's cool is that if a CM appears at runtime, it will switch to the nice 
> rounded edges svg automatically (without the panel even knowing =).. and if 
> the CM disappears, it goes back to the opaque/ version. whee..
> 
The TechBase isn't really clear about this.  It appears to say that it 
is also possible to use a bit map that doesn't use anti-aliasing at the 
edge and that this will be rendered correctly.  Is that correct?  If so, 
perhaps a chamfered corner would look better.

-- 
JRT