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[Roger <r.wiberg@xxxxxxxxx>]

"that is how it looks with
metacity too and autohide is not the common case."

That's the point of having compiz in the first place: it _isn't_ metacity! 
This is an added feature that compiz brings and metacity doesn't have.
It seems such a shame to get rid of it for no good reason, when this is actually
the way compiz is _supposed_ to work.


"If that is the only problem you're having"

There's one more thing that I've already alluded to. The idea behind compiz
is to add some 3D realism to the desktop. To achieve this realism, things
have to work the way they do in the real world. In particular, shadows have to
work the way we expect them to. Imagine a tree standing in the sun. The whole
tree is lit up but only part of the tree casts a shadow ... That's just not the
way shadows work in the real world! It just doesn't feel right, and the very 
purpose of compiz is to make the desktop "feel right".

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Compiz patch broke gnome-panel shadows when auto-hidden panel slides out
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