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[Omar B. <estelar57@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

agree with this all those bugs are annoying, so as long as it doesnt look like the panel in unity2d which imo looks dead or bland compared to normal unity.

> Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2012 08:45:08 +0100
> From: alanbell@xxxxxxxxxx
> To: unity-design@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [Unity-design] dropping the top panel shadow
> 
> I would like to propose removal of the 'shadow' cast by the unity top panel.
> 
> This shadow causes the following bugs
> 
> #956863 Top panel shadow is drawn above presentation when using LO 
> Impress with Presenter Console
> #763579 Panel drop shadow causes issues for screencasting apps
> #871758 Top Bar, window managment - top bar shadow not falling on 
> restored windows that are partially off the top edge of the screen
> #892718 [multimonitor] Opening dash on one screen removes panel shadow 
> on the other
> #967294 Unity panel shadow should not draw over unfocussed windows
> 
> The basic problem is that the shadow is not semantically a shadow at 
> all, it isn't an openGL rendered consequence of the panel being above 
> the desktop with a lightsource illuminating it and casting a shadow. It 
> is just a translucent PNG stuck on the screen as decoration and isn't in 
> the NUX layer outside the scope of compiz - like the top panel is. Under 
> normal circumstances the shadow is positioned close to where the bottom 
> of the panel should be if the panel is the default size - this is 
> delicate. If you zoom into the desktop the shadow zooms but the panel 
> doesn't and all the bugs kind of relate to the shadow and panel becoming 
> disconnected with each other, because they are not actually attached to 
> each other. I don't think these problems can be fixed with the current 
> implementation strategy - if it was a shadow actually cast by the panel 
> it might work better.
> 
> Visually I don't think the shadow really adds anything to the desktop 
> experience, and the assorted bugs really detract from it and do not give 
> the pixel perfect impression we are going for.
> 
> I am happy to do the work to patch it out if people agree.
> 
> 
> Alan.
> 
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