User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20060601 Firefox/2.0 (Ubuntu-edgy) Build Identifier: Request: add an option to the "Window manager tweaks" to disable drawing shadows on panel objects. I have a panel on top of each screen which drop a shadow on each window, which isn't very appealing to the(/my) eye... ;) Beryls has such a feature and it looks very nice that way! Cheers! Harold. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce:
I'd prefer not to add yet another option. So I'd prefer to go one way or the other, but we'll have to make a choice. I don't have any strong opinion.
I agree with Harold about panels at the top of the screen with drop shadows on all window titles not looking very nice, so I think not drawing the shadows for the panel might be the best option. But, I don't feel strongly about this either.
Panels are docks, docks are always on top, and it's more realistic to have shadows on objects place above, IMHO.
(In reply to comment #3) > Panels are docks, docks are always on top, and it's more realistic to have > shadows on objects place above, IMHO. > Yes, that's certainly the most consistent point of view. I think I can live with that ;-)
(In reply to comment #3) > Panels are docks, docks are always on top, and it's more realistic to have > shadows on objects place above, IMHO. > I tend to think of panels as 'margins' and that application windows are always 'closer' to the user... But then again, I don't see the xfce-menu as popup, but more as a regular window... So it's probable my vision which is blurred...
Rev. 24105 removes shadows from dock-type windows.
Thanx! Maybe this can be configurable for future releases (4.4+)? There probably are a lot of users who did like the shadows... Cheers! Harold.
I'm not too happy with making everything and anything configurable... I guess ppl will have to live with it that way.
> I'm not too happy with making everything and anything configurable... I guess ppl will have to live with it that way. I see your point, but could you provide a patch which can enable the old behaviour again for those who liked it? Although I’m not using the compositor at the moment, I found shadows for panels more realistic and plastic.
An option has been added for that purpose in xfwm4 trunk.