Re: [Usability] window drop shadows?

[Sean Middleditch <elanthis awesomeplay com>]

On Tue, 2004-11-16 at 11:09 -0500, David Feldman wrote:
> Is there some way to add drop shadow to windows and/or menus in GNOME? 
> It seems like, assuming the computer has the processing power to handle 
> it, it could improve usability by defining boundaries among objects 
> more clearly.

No, there is no way to *correctly* add drop shadows currently.  The hack
that KDE uses has many noticeable glitches when the contents behind the
shadows change.

When X.org and the Composite extension are a little more stable,
Metacity's built-in compositing manager will hopefully have drop-shadow
support and anyone using the Composite extension will automatically get
them.

> 
> --Dave
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