Comments on: By popular request

By: Henrique

Henrique — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 22:45:42 +0000

Also…

“Request: Antialias the rounded corners.” +1

At least some drawing method, primitive, or option to the Metacity XML theme file. Something like would be great!

By: Henrique

Henrique — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 22:41:59 +0000

Perfectness is on the details.

Yep, thats cute. Thanks!

By: Luca Ferretti

Luca Ferretti — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 14:20:22 +0000

Iain, another note about the shadows: it seems that kwin for KDE4 is using a texture to draw the shadow. In a recent change, they commited an updated texture using a gaussian blur instead of a linear gradient. This should make the shadow more realistic.

From KDE svn log

By: Luca Ferretti

Luca Ferretti — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 13:25:40 +0000

Great! This drop shadow for panel is definitively better :-)

I can confirm the drop shadow only on the first dragged icon.

By: gus

gus — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 15:01:47 +0000

WOW! great work!

I just checked out your branch from gnome svn and after one fast compile i got it working. It does quite better in performance vs compiz. My problems with compiz were related with scrolling, it was unusable, as the application stopped scrolling quite after i released my mouse wheel. With metacity there’s a lag there also, but it’s far more responsive. It seems to consume double the cpu in comparation with plain metacity.

This is great i can run awn now with out the need of the bloated compiz-fusion! :P

Also, if you are open to opinions, i dont like the black border on the windows when you do the ALT-tab.

(note i tested this on my Thinkpad t60 with an ati X1300)

By: iain

iain — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 23:33:09 +0000

luca: yeah, I had to revert the panel drop shadows over windows thing, it had a weird bug in it that I’ve not found yet. I’ve not touched tooltips shadows, and although it was working for me, I seem to have a drop shadow only on the first icon I drag, all other drags have no shadows. I’ll look into that too.

By: Luca Cavalli

Luca Cavalli — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 22:57:51 +0000

Hi Iain,
great work on this side of Metacity, thanks. I’m running svn revision 3445 but I still have drop shadows on dragging icons and tooltips (did you remove tooltips shadow too?) and the dropping shadow of panel is drawn over windows. Any idea?

By: iain

iain — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 16:12:19 +0000

Jakub: Actually, someone else pointed out to me today that that was how OSX did it, by using a smaller shadow. I’ll look into doing that too.

By: Jakub Steiner

Jakub Steiner — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 15:24:07 +0000

Amazing stuff. I would also suggest to make the shadow of the unfocused windows much much more subtle (I’d actually drop it completely, but I’m an extremist). That way it aids showing which window is focused.

By: Rui

Rui — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 17:05:11 +0000

*Two* +1 == *Three* :-)