A little shadow patch ...

[Auke Kok]

Brian J. Tarricone wrote:

>On 11/11/04 21:28, Jasper Huijsmans wrote:
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>>KnX wrote:
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>>>I don't know if it could interest somebody, but i juste "finished" this :
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>>>http://img83.exs.cx/img83/4497/MyHumbleShadowPatch_KnX.png
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>>>I still have a problem though, when i change parameters in the mcs 
>>>plugin, i'd like to redraw the fullscreen and the gaussian map generator 
>>>if needed ( when shadow size change ) is there a clean way to do this ?
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>>It's of course up to Olivier, but personally I'm not convinced the 
>>shadow appearance should be configurable. And if it is I'm not sure it 
>>should be in the GUI.
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>I think it's a pretty useful feature to have.  Drop-shadows are relatively
>new in the X11 world, and I don't think there's any kind of consensus as
>to how the shadows should look, or what most people will find pleasing.
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>An option in the GUI may not be the way to go, but I think having hidden
>prefs for something like this is a must, at least for now.
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I would make this a separate control panel item, one that also allows 
you to switch all these composite stuff *OFF* and *ON* 
(xfce-composite-settings)

just my $0.02 ;^)

sofar