Just a little something for my eyes only....

[Brian J. Tarricone]

Christian Dysthe wrote:

> I know I am asking about something that is only eye-candy and probably 
> resource intensive as well, but what the heck:
>
> What would it take to have drop shadows under windows like OS X has? 
> Xfce now looks so great that I would die to see what this would do to 
> the overall look of my desktop. It sure looks great on OS X...
>
> Again, I am sorry for suggesting something completely 
> useless....still.... :)

to do this in a non-hacky way, you need an X server that actually 
supports transparency and compositing, like keith packard's kdrive 
(http://xserver.freedesktop.org/).  if you use that, you actually get 
the drop shadows automatically, IIRC.  however, it's rather experimental 
and unstable.  emulating this in xfwm4 would be a terrible hack (IMHO, 
the gtk menu drop shadow patch mentioned in another post is a bit of a 
hack as well, though a very well-executed one) and would most likely 
kill performance - esp when resizing.  one reason the perf hit isn't so 
bad on on the gtk menu patch is because you don't resize them and you 
don't move them.

it _would_ be a nice effect though....

    -brian