Menu bar - Shadows are not clipped until animations are finished

[Sam Spilsbury]

See: https://bugs.launchpad.net/compiz-core/+bug/659816/comments/10

"and when you switch between menuitems in the panel you see the shadow appearing on top and then being cut"

The problem is that the animation plugin sets PAINT_WINDOW_TRANSFORMED_MASK even when it doesn't really need it. (Shadow clipping is disabled on transformed windows)

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Fix committed into lp:compiz-animation-plugin at revision 396

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Fix committed into lp:compiz-plugins-main at revision 26

[Andrea Cimitan (cimi)]

not fixed for me in unity staging PPA

[Andrea Cimitan (cimi)]

Still seeing it live live is more visible, recording skips frames, but you can see sometimes the shadow even not being clipped.
Daniel, opinions?

If I remember I noticed this before the clipping code went in, it's just more visible now.

[Andrea Cimitan (cimi)]

Maybe extending the clip match code mMenusClipGroup (CompMatch ("type=Dock | type=DropdownMenu | type=PopupMenu")) with a unity panel case?

I have the feeling the unity menus lose their type (or something happens) when you switch between them. It could be that unity tells compiz about their type slowly

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Cimi, I think this bug is mostly a duplicate of bug 659816, which is _not_ fixed and I commented on yesterday.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package compiz-plugins-main - 1:0.9.7.0~bzr19-0ubuntu10

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compiz-plugins-main (1:0.9.7.0~bzr19-0ubuntu10) precise; urgency=low

  [ Sam Spilsbury ]
  * debian/patches/fix_963767.patch : fix LP: #963767, scale correctly

  [ Didier Roche ]
  * debian/patches/ubuntu_config.patch:
    Fix typos in animation.xml.in causing mismatched animations of menus and
    tooltips (LP: #977743)
  * debian/patches/fix_976469.patch:
    - Shadows are not clipped until animations are finished (LP: #976469)
  * debian/patches/fix_940603.patch:
    - white box randomly shows up at top left corner blocking applications from
      using stuff under it (LP: #940603)

  [ Oliver Grawert ]
  * update GLES2 patch for latest changes.
  * thanks to Łukasz 'sil2100' Zemczak <email address hidden> for
    merging the packaging changes into the right branches.
 -- Didier Roche <email address hidden> Thu, 12 Apr 2012 09:19:07 +0200

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Fix released in Compiz Main Plugins 0.9.7.2