Re: [Usability] window drop shadows?

[David Zulaica <david pseudo-cyb org>]

On Tue Nov 16 10:12 , Sean Middleditch <elanthis awesomeplay com> sent:

>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.

what i'd really like to see, which follows along the same idea, is having the
item in focus display as normal (opaque, in this case) and have all other items
in the workspace that don't have focus become translucent (with the option to
adjust the level). that's a usability feature i've been waiting for for many
years but haven't come across yet. it'd be nice to see this in future versions of
gnome.

david