Re: themes for GNOME2 docs

[Telsa Gwynne <hobbit aloss ukuu org uk>]

On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 09:51:41AM -0500 or thereabouts, David Merrill wrote:
> > 
> > What is a drop shadow?
> 
> It's a faux shadow designed to make the image appear to "hover" over
> the background, onto which it therefore casts a "shadow". It is visually
> nice when done well, but just as often it is annoying. It doesn't seem
> appropriate for a screenshot, where you want a plain exposition of what
> the screen looks like in real use, imho.

Thanks -- and to the people who emailed me with off-list answers too :)

Telsa