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Bug 707448 - shadow too strong for CSD windows
shadow too strong for CSD windows
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: gnome-themes-standard
Classification: Core
Component: Adwaita GTK3 theme
3.9.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: gnome-themes-standard-maint
gnome-themes-standard-maint
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2013-09-04 11:12 UTC by Sebastian Keller
Modified: 2013-10-08 21:41 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---


Attachments
Screenshot of the difference between CSD and non-CSD shadows (41.05 KB, image/png)
2013-09-04 11:12 UTC, Sebastian Keller
  Details
Screenshot: wm_shadow 0.4 (33.83 KB, image/png)
2013-09-11 13:40 UTC, Sebastian Keller
  Details
Screenshot: wm_shadow 0.5 (33.98 KB, image/png)
2013-09-11 13:40 UTC, Sebastian Keller
  Details
make CSD shadows more inline with mutter (890 bytes, patch)
2013-10-08 21:33 UTC, Jakub Steiner
committed Details | Review

Description Sebastian Keller 2013-09-04 11:12:07 UTC
Created attachment 254053 [details]
Screenshot of the difference between CSD and non-CSD shadows

The shadows for CSD windows appear much thicker and heavier than the shadows for non CSD windows. I'm attaching a screenshot that shows both side by side in which you can easily see the difference.
The CSD shadow also has a rather sharp edge which somewhat destroys the illusion of it being a shadow.
Setting wm_shadow to alpha(black, 0.5) or alpha(black, 0.4) makes the shadows look much more similar in terms of intensity.
There are probably additional adjustments that could be made to fix the sharp edge but I guess that would require either changing the gtk blur/shadow algorithm (if that it is even possible and not defined by the css standard) or adjusting the blur etc. values but before you can increase that https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=705343 needs to be fixed first.
Comment 1 Sebastian Keller 2013-09-11 13:40:29 UTC
Created attachment 254680 [details]
Screenshot: wm_shadow 0.4
Comment 2 Sebastian Keller 2013-09-11 13:40:55 UTC
Created attachment 254682 [details]
Screenshot: wm_shadow 0.5
Comment 3 Jakub Steiner 2013-10-08 21:33:12 UTC
Created attachment 256764 [details] [review]
make CSD shadows more inline with mutter
Comment 4 Jakub Steiner 2013-10-08 21:41:45 UTC
Attachment 256764 [details] pushed as 6089721 - make CSD shadows more inline with mutter