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[Lewis Chung <siwelchungster@xxxxxxxxx>]

I just want to pop in and give my answer: no, because the active window
seems to have distinct title bar properties (more colorful). To me, this
stands out enough, but I cannot speak for others. Personally, I have also
found the shadow to be slightly distracting when having two windows lined up
side by side.

- Lewis

On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 7:52 PM, S. Christian Collins <
s.chriscollins@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> My two cents: The active window shadow does help to clarify which window is
> currently active.  So the question is, would it be noticeably harder to
> identify the active window if the shadows were disabled?
>
> -~Chris
>
>
> On 04/17/2011 06:21 PM, Ryan Prior wrote:
>
>> When the user tiles windows by dragging them to the left or right of
>> the viewport, they tile as to fit perfectly together. In order to
>> increase the impact of that illusion, I think it would be neat if the
>> window shadow for the active window would be supressed, so that one
>> shadow would not overlap the other. This puts the two windows on the
>> same "plane", rather than one in "front" of another.
>> Another tiny detail that could improve the illusion is to remove the
>> window corner rounding for the "seam" between the two tiled windows,
>> making them look more like one unit.
>>
>> I can create a mock-up if that would be helpful to illustrate my idea.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Ryan
>>
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