Hi all, at KDE we designed a new system to allow clients to specify the shadow to be rendered by the compositor. It is our belief that only the client can know how the shadow has to look like (e.g. consistent light model). We think that this system is not only useful for KDE, but for all compositors/Desktop Shells and therefore I propose it here as an idea for addition to the NetWM spec.
The general idea of our system is that the client specifies a hint and passes eight pixmap ids (four corners and four sides) and the offset in all directions to the compositor through the hint. The compositor then can decide to render the shadow based on the hint. A full description can be found in [1]. We currently have three parties implementing the system: * Oxygen Qt style * Oxygen GTK style * Plasma Desktop Shell And there has already been further interest by other application with a custom style such as Yakuake. For such applications it would be of most interest to have a cross-desktop solution. [2] If there is interest in such a system in a standardized way, I would draft an addition to the NetWM spec. Of course we are willing to change the code and have not yet added new methods to our public API in order to be able to integrate feedback from the broader community. Kind Regards Martin Gräßlin KWin Maintainer [1]: http://community.kde.org/KWin/Shadow [2]: Yes I know that this would improve CSD and that this sounds like being a hypocrite. But I prefer having a proper system instead of clients starting to extend their window size to get custom drop shadows and causing major breakage.
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