Re: [XaraXtreme-dev] Re: Popup slider

[Alex Bligh <alex@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Charles Moir wrote:
> I've not seen it yet, but I'd agree some sort of border sounds necessary
> and probably should be a 0.7 fix. Another common way of separating
> pop-ups like this is to give them a shadow. Apple do this of course
> everywhere. But I don't know what determines whether this can be done on
> Linux? I've have seen some distros do this, but my Ubuntu (quite old
> now) does not.  Or can it be made to? Or can we do this on a dialog by
> dialog basis? (Requires transparency handling on the desktop presumably)

It has a shadow if you have a compositor that adds shadows to every
window. I have a video of it working on metacity like that.

However, we can't rely on that (obviously). Adding a border
is pretty easy.

I've also found some nasty (camelot kernel) bug, where if the feather
slider moves from A to B, it's drawn at B, then we update it to back
to A, then to B, then to B again (causing jumpiness). It's
proving hard to debug.

Alex