Re: [Usability] window drop shadows?

["John (J5) Palmieri" <johnp redhat com>]

On Tue, 2004-11-16 at 10:26 -0600, David Zulaica wrote:
> On Tue Nov 16 10:12 , Sean Middleditch <elanthis awesomeplay com> sent:
> 
> >On Tue, 2004-11-16 at 11:09 -0500, David Feldman wrote:
> >> Is there some way to add drop shadow to windows and/or menus in GNOME? 
> >> It seems like, assuming the computer has the processing power to handle 
> >> it, it could improve usability by defining boundaries among objects 
> >> more clearly.
> >
> >No, there is no way to *correctly* add drop shadows currently.  The hack
> >that KDE uses has many noticeable glitches when the contents behind the
> >shadows change.
> >
> >When X.org and the Composite extension are a little more stable,
> >Metacity's built-in compositing manager will hopefully have drop-shadow
> >support and anyone using the Composite extension will automatically get
> >them.
> 
> what i'd really like to see, which follows along the same idea, is having the
> item in focus display as normal (opaque, in this case) and have all other items
> in the workspace that don't have focus become translucent (with the option to
> adjust the level). that's a usability feature i've been waiting for for many
> years but haven't come across yet. it'd be nice to see this in future versions of
> gnome.

All the current test implementation I have seen does this.

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John (J5) Palmieri
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