GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 500084
Dragged icon windows don't use RGBA when composited
Last modified: 2008-02-13 14:12:16 UTC
When dragging an icon, the alpha mask of the icon turns bi-level, which looks pretty bad most of the time, as shadows disappear and edges become jagged. When in an composited environment, these windows should use RGBA drawing rather than just using window shaping. (Probably use input-only shaping instead.) Also while this is being done, we should make the entire drawing 50% transparent to make it easier to see what you are dropping things onto. Cheers Alex
Created attachment 100980 [details] [review] Patch This does the job nicely, I think!
I think this is a cool patch! Did you send a notification to nautilus-list@gnome.org requesting review? Nautilus maintainers usually do not follow patches submitted on Bugzilla.
No. I don't do mailing lists for one-off patches, it wastes too much of my time.
(In reply to comment #0) > > Also while this is being done, we should make the entire drawing 50% > transparent to make it easier to see what you are dropping things onto. > This would be fantastic, especially for thumbnails. I can't possibly count how many times I "missed" the Trash-can because it was fully covered by the thumbnail I was dragging. With local files (files on the same partition my $HOMEDIR is) this is not a problem, but it can be annoying when you want to remove a huge file and instead you start copying it.
Cool. Commited.