Compiz's default Human-glass look does not "work" visually

[Alexander Jones]

Binary package hint: compiz

The human window decorations do not lend themselves to being made transparent ("glassy") in the way the inactive decorations are. This looks especially poor on the sides and bottom, where there is a very thin border that you can see through.

We should leave the window decorations fully opaque for now. New decorations can incorporate a glassy look if necessary.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Mar 12 22:41:45 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.04
Uname: Linux flash 2.6.20-9-generic #2 SMP Mon Feb 26 03:01:44 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

[Alexander Jones (alex-weej)]

/apps/gwd/metacity_theme_active_opacity = 1
/apps/gwd/metacity_theme_active_shade_opacity = true
/apps/gwd/metacity_theme_opacity = 1
/apps/gwd/metacity_theme_shade_opacity = true

Note that the "shade" bools can't be set to false, else this means that the whole thing is something like 50% opaque.

[Alexander Jones (alex-weej)]

Ah, I get it now, when shade is FALSE it paints the whole thing with whatever alpha is specified. (Duh!) Somehow I got the wrong idea into my head.

I guess we should turn shade off then, saves it trying to calculate a gradient from 1 to 1.

/apps/gwd/metacity_theme_active_opacity = 1
/apps/gwd/metacity_theme_active_shade_opacity = false
/apps/gwd/metacity_theme_opacity = 1
/apps/gwd/metacity_theme_shade_opacity = false