Re: [Usability] My take on Nautilus must-fix proposal

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Reinout van Schouwen <reinout cs vu nl> writes: 
> If we can have anti-aliased fonts now with hardware alpha rendering and
> whatnot, surely this feature shouldn't be too hard to add? If a window
> would also cast a shadow on other windows below it, it would amplify the
> Z-order idea- something my father, admittedly a lost cause when it comes
> to using computers at all, didn't grasp when confronted by it for the
> first time.

We need to wait for XRENDER to support transparent windows before we
can do this and have it look nice. (You could do opaque shadows now,
but it would just look dumb IMO.)

Havoc