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Month: February 2012

Re: [trinity-devel] twin modifications

From: Ilya Chernykh <anixxsus@...>
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2012 00:09:16 +0400
On Tuesday 14 February 2012 01:00:59 Timothy Pearson wrote:

> > No. These shadows are not those present in TDE. TDE currently uses the
> > shadows introduced
> > by the cited above Chakra patch. The shadows on this screenshot are the
> > original kwin shadows.
> 
> While they are original, they are in fact handled by kompmgr. :-)  There
> are also non-composited shadows that originally came with KDE 3.5.10 as
> well, and those are glitchy.

This is screenshot from KDE3, not from Trinity, and it shows the only shadows
that present in the original KDE3.

> 
> The checkbox in your screenshot is not very accurate.  In TDE it has been
> changed to read ""Enable the Trinity window composition manager" instead
> of "Use Translucency/Shadows", and if you dig around in the KDE 3.5.10
> code a bit you will see what I mean.
> 
> kompmgr's shadows (which incidentally are configured using the exact same
> kcontrol module with the same general options) work almost 100% on the TDE
> system that I am writing this from...

Your shadows in Trinity are not shown when resizing and moving windows.