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List:       kde-look
Subject:    RE: windows with shadows
From:       "Blatter, Philip" <philip.blatter () sap ! com>
Date:       2000-04-28 8:42:36
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hi there,

i think lighting up focused windows is a quite good idea.
-> look at enlightenment. 

regards
  phil

-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Leigh [mailto:dave.leigh@cratchit.org]
Sent: Freitag, 28. April 2000 01:37
To: kde-look@kde.org
Subject: Re: windows with shadows



Dirk Hennig wrote:

> For quite a time I am thinking about a new feature in the window
management: Adding a
> shadow to windows. By this I mean not only having a black line on the
right and bottom end
> of it, but a real shadow, which darkens the underlying window or desktop.
For each window
> a "flight height above desktop" should be calculated, depending on when it
last was
> raised. Then the shadow should be bigger or smaller, depending on the
difference between
> the window and the underlying window or desktop. That means, the shadow of
one window
> could have a different widths.
> I admit, it is not an easy task, but I think it would improve the look a
lot, because it
> would be much easier to for the user to optical seperate the windows.
>
> What do you think about this?
>
> Dirk

I think this "new feature" would look just as cool as it did when we used to
have the same
thing in DOS. ;)

However, from a purely practical standpoint, I don't see much reason in
slowing down my
machine  to calculate window heights.  But while we're discussing such
things, how about
having the window with current focus be ever-so-slightly brighter than the
other windows on
the desktop?  This would stand out quite a bit better in some cases... for
example, if you're
using focus-follows-mouse, the currently active window isn't necessarily on
top, and shadows
would obscure it more than is desirable.

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