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There has got to be a better way....
by Joe on Thursday 01/May/2008, @10:43

There has got to be a better, more efficient way to draw shadows around windows than to put a shadow behind the whole window. Compiz, doesn't do this and thus when you wobble windows, you don't see the shadow layer lagging behind the top layer. Now in compiz, the window decorator is a separate process, does this make a differenece?

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Re: There has got to be a better way....
by okparanoid on Thursday 01/May/2008, @11:44

Hi !

I have write a bug report for this :
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=161330

Seems that you have add a comment to this report

I don't know the architecture of kwin but perhaps that drawing shadows around windows is in fact an optimisation ? More easy to just compute a rectangular area, and perhaps when the area is behind something else there is not any draws made for it ?

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Re: There has got to be a better way....
by JackieBrown on Thursday 01/May/2008, @14:58

I like it more than I liked the compiz one.

I hope it stays as is.

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