On Wednesday 26 January 2011 21:35:15 Martin Gräßlin wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I have been gathering some ideas about how to do window shadows better in a
> composited window manager and how to give control of the shadows to the
> widget style. I wrote down my current ideas for (undecorated) windows in
> [1]. The approach can easily be extended to support decorated windows
> (active and inactive state).
> 
> Please all have a look at it and provide some feedback. Feel free to
> change/extend it to whatever you think. The idea is mostly based on
> discussions with Hugo (Oxygen) with some ideas coming from a discussion
> with Thomas (Bespin), but I would also love to have feedback from other
> widget style developers like Christoph and Craig.
> 
> Furthermore if you look at the proposal you will see some _KDE_NET_WM
> hints. So I want to have this "upstreamed" after it is implemented. That's
> why I cc- ed Sam to get some early feedback from the cross-wm front ;-)
> Does the approach work for Compiz as well and does it make sense to go the
> way through EWMH?
> 
> Thanks to all making Shadows in 4.7 rock :-D
> 

I'm all for it. In fact since oxygen already deals with shadow using some 
plasma-like code, the suggested solution is pretty easy. 
Only concern I have is how do I actually pass a QPixmap as a X property :)

> Cheers
> Martin
> 
> [1] http://community.kde.org/KWin/Shadow
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