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

[Liam Quin <liam holoweb net>]

On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 01:18:07PM -0700, Maciej Stachowiak wrote:
> Stippled shapes look butt ugly compared to alpha blending.

Well, not all of us think your butt is ugly... but...
yes, alpha blending is better.  Don't hold your breath for
the Render extension support, though.

http://www.holoweb.net/~liam/gnome/shadow.png
shows a sample stippled shadow falling on a gnome-terminal.
They are only OK when the shadow is fairly small.

It'd be neat to vary the shadow by the window's z-axis, so as to
simulate height.

I'd like that a lot, I often send the front window to the back by mistake,
because of poor visual clues.

Lee

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