Anders Storsveen wrote: >I found one serious defect with the transparency/shadow effect in kde! >if you use a shadow in conjunction with the transparency you will get a >darker transparancy, because apparently the shadow is a black >semi-transparent copy of the window which is just a little bigger than >the original window! this is really stupid, and the shadow should only >be drawn outside the window, and not behind it! It makes everything look >gray and dull! And I want to use both... >Also it looks like shadows are much more cpu intensive than transparancy >and effects, maybe limiting the drawing to only around the window, like >a new border would help that along also! > >Also another thing is that, making the shadows bigger than about 2-3 >just washes them out... they get so thinly shadowed that they dissapear >which isn't what I would want. I would like to have a bigger shadow on >my active windows to give the effect of it being higher above the >desktop, and inactive ones being lower... however, like this it seems >that the shadow gets removed when I get them active. What could be done >is add another option to control shadow "filling" to choose how dark it >should be, so when upping the size you also up the degree of darkness or >filling. Or another algorithm that compensates for it automatically, so >what you get is actually a larger shadow! ;) > >On a positive note though, it works really great now with the new >drivers! The only technical problems I have with them is that X just >quits if I press view on a "new message" bubble in kopete, it has been >like this for a while ( with old drivers too), and the second is that >sometimes when I apply changes to the Translucency tab it locks up. >Other than that stability has greatly improved! >Hope someone can do something about this! other than that it's getting >along great! ;) >___________________________________________________ >. >Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. >Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. >More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html. > > I just thought of two more additions, I think there could be a toggle to still treat a window as active while popups and windows inside the same app appears. And secondly, treat kicker as a seperate thing, so you could still have a transparent kicker while the icons on it are non-transparent! (this one is probably a little harder though) ___________________________________________________ . Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.