questions about KWin shadows

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On Wednesday, May 4, 2011 17:19:37 Martin Gräßlin wrote:
> that is in fact the main idea of the new shadow system as the compositor
> cannot know about the light model used by the client, whether to apply drop
> shadows etc. etc. And of course the compositor doesn't know the clients
> shape like Marco already said.

well, in any case, it's working now in master for panels. those are now 
rendered using the kwin effect. i'll work on the other bits and pieces in 
libplasma later.

it seems to work nicely with the panel autohide slide in/out effect as well, 
and content behind the shadow is not blurred. clicks go through ... all in a 
nice improvement.

you may wish to check it out for yourselves to ensure there are no performance 
regressions.

there is just one copy of the pixmaps kept for all the panels; there will end 
up being another set for popups and yet another for tooltips, i believe.

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