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On Mon, 21 Nov 2011, Daniel van Vugt wrote:

> When I said we can improve on this, I meant we should:
>
> (a) Enhance unity-window-decorator to use the Shadow Opacity setting
> from compizconfig. It seems to ignore it presently.
>
> and
>
> (b) Enhance unity-window-decorator to scale its shadow radii (from
> light-themes) relative to the default shadow radius (15.0) from compiz
> config. That way, the shadow radius is still determined by the theme
> setting, but also will resize if the radius in CCSM is adjusted.

Both are now fixed in precise, well, "fixed".

Previously we used to use the shadow radius and information specified by 
the theme so that we could have active and inactive shadows on windows 
specified by the theme, so that it wouldn't look bad on other themes.

However, to do that, we had to carry a patch on libmetacity, and it means 
that light themes won't work outside of ubuntu. I decided earlier this 
cycle to just drop the patch and read the settings from mutter for the 
invisible grab borders (since it now suppoorts those) and use the compiz 
settings for the shadows  (though, really, the compiz settings for the 
shadows need to die, since it doesn't make sense to apply them across all 
decorators and the way that we  read and write the settings there are 
really awkward (some protocol going over X properties))

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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/708786
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> Title:
>  unity-window-decorator ignores shadow settings from the Window
>  Decoration plugin
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