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

[Maciej Stachowiak <mjs noisehavoc org>]

On 29Oct2001 12:59AM (-0500), Havoc Pennington wrote:
> 
> Maciej Stachowiak <mjs noisehavoc org> writes:
> > On 28Oct2001 06:04PM (-0500), Liam Quin wrote:
> > > On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 11:19:48PM -0700, George wrote:
> > > >> 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.
> > > > 
> > > > This is pretty nice.  It think this would work quite nicely.  May not be
> > > > as good as alpha blending where you could get all fancy, but it's nice clean
> > > > and gets the point across.
> > > 
> > > It actually works very well in practice.  I thought of trying to add it to
> > > gtk using a theme, then realised (1) gtk themes couldn't make windows
> > > larger, and (2) it belonged in the window manager.  I'd really like a
> > > "shadows" option in sawthingy :)
> > > 
> > 
> > I will weep if I have to see stipple shadows on my Linux/GNOME laptop
> > next to my beatifully subtle alpha-composited shades on my Mac OS X
> > box.
> 
> I realized one big issue with using a stipple window: if you click on
> the shadow, it doesn't pass through to the window underneath. 

Depends on if you click on an on or off pixel.

> That would happen even if we did have alpha blended windows, sadly -
> we need "output only" X windows...

Hmmm - I'm not sure how the future cross-window alpha extension will
be designed, but I hope there are options other than only alpha == 0
passing events.

Also, if the WM does it, it can always send synthetic events to fake
click-through.

 - Maciej