Re: Discussion of development version interface

[David Schneider <dnschneid gmail com>]

Also, it looks like the dropdown is not aligned with the main window.

---------- Sun, 27 Mar 2011 19:03:07 +0200 ----------
Ulrik Sverdrup <ulrik sverdrup gmail com> wrote:

> 2011/3/25 David Schneider <dnschneid gmail com>:
> > Just tried it on xfwm4 with compositing disabled, and the lack of rounded
> > window corners looks pretty bad when paired with the rounded panes.  It might
> > look better if you unrounded the pane corners when the window is unrounded.
> >
> > (FYI, I like both the new theme with rounded corners and the old theme)
> 
> Ok. Thanks to you and all for the feedback on this :-)
> 
> I think the square corners are worse than the rounded corners, even
> when noncomposited.
> 
> This seems to work:
> 
> When not composited, use window shape (*),
> when composited, use no window shape, just draw the corners transparently.
> 
> This is now in master. I believe the WM awesome showed drawing
> glitches only when shape and compositing were combined.
> 
> This means rounded corners by default. Square corners with square
> highlights inside -- is left to styling (either included or can be
> plugin/coded)
> 
> (*) Window shape = which pixels you can click to focus the window.
> 
> -ulrik