Re: Re: questions about KWin shadows

2011-05-04 Thread Martin Gräßlin
On Wednesday 04 May 2011 19:58:14 Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > On Wednesday, May 4, 2011 17:19:37 Martin Gräßlin wrote: > > that is in fact the main idea of the new shadow system as the compositor > > cannot know about the light model used by the client, whether to apply drop > > shadows etc. etc. And o

Re: questions about KWin shadows

2011-05-04 Thread Marco Martin
On Wednesday 04 May 2011, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > On Wednesday, May 4, 2011 17:19:37 Martin Gräßlin wrote: > > that is in fact the main idea of the new shadow system as the compositor > > cannot know about the light model used by the client, whether to apply > > drop shadows etc. etc. And of course

Re: questions about KWin shadows

2011-05-04 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Wednesday, May 4, 2011 17:19:37 Martin Gräßlin wrote: > that is in fact the main idea of the new shadow system as the compositor > cannot know about the light model used by the client, whether to apply drop > shadows etc. etc. And of course the compositor doesn't know the clients > shape like Ma

Re: Re: questions about KWin shadows

2011-05-04 Thread Martin Gräßlin
On Wednesday 04 May 2011 13:32:55 Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > On Wednesday, May 4, 2011 10:19:34 Marco Martin wrote: > > On Monday 02 May 2011, Martin Gräßlin wrote: > > > Windows wich have decorations are the only ones which should not get the > > > shadows. Docks should work. > > > > > > In any case

Re: questions about KWin shadows

2011-05-04 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Wednesday, May 4, 2011 10:19:34 Marco Martin wrote: > On Monday 02 May 2011, Martin Gräßlin wrote: > > Windows wich have decorations are the only ones which should not get the > > shadows. Docks should work. > > > > In any case I recommend reading [1]. Feel free to show me the diff. > > > > Chee

Re: questions about KWin shadows

2011-05-04 Thread Marco Martin
On Wednesday 04 May 2011, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > thanks for the answers .. > > On Monday, May 2, 2011 17:34:17 Martin Gräßlin wrote: > > > * is there a way to get the default sizes for the offsets? e.g. if > > > passing in -1 or some such? > > > > there is no default offset size. It is completly

Re: questions about KWin shadows

2011-05-04 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
thanks for the answers .. On Monday, May 2, 2011 17:34:17 Martin Gräßlin wrote: > > * is there a way to get the default sizes for the offsets? e.g. if > > passing in -1 or some such? > > there is no default offset size. It is completly controlled by the client why should the client be forced to c

Re: questions about KWin shadows

2011-05-04 Thread Marco Martin
On Monday 02 May 2011, Martin Gräßlin wrote: > Windows wich have decorations are the only ones which should not get the > shadows. Docks should work. > > In any case I recommend reading [1]. Feel free to show me the diff. > > Cheers > Martin > > [1]: https://projects.kde.org/projects/kde/kdebase

Re: questions about KWin shadows

2011-05-02 Thread Martin Gräßlin
On Monday 02 May 2011 15:34:52 Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > hi.. > > i just pushed a commit which attempts to replace the ShadowWindow that > PanelView in plasma-desktop was using with the _KDE_NET_WM_SHADOW hint. > > it doesn't seem to be working, however .. some general questions i have after > r

questions about KWin shadows

2011-05-02 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
hi.. i just pushed a commit which attempts to replace the ShadowWindow that PanelView in plasma-desktop was using with the _KDE_NET_WM_SHADOW hint. it doesn't seem to be working, however .. some general questions i have after reading http://community.kde.org/KWin/Shadow : * the property is a