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Menu Shadows in GTK2

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the why-the-heck-not dept.

unmadindu noted that there is a now a gtk shadow patch which does what it says for GTK2 applications. You can see a screenshot, or another or yet another. And if you're lazy, here are some RPMs with the patch. One more piece of eye candy to brighten up your weekend.

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  1. Wow, must be a slow day by brunes69 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    GTK gets another feature that KDE has had for over a year. Wait itll they get window shadows in 2005. Will that also make the front page?

  2. QT had shadows last year by salimfadhley · · Score: 5, Interesting

    KDE had shadowed windows and menus a long time ago (at least it did on my distribution) - shouldnt the title of this article read

    "GTK/Gnome finally catches up by implementing usless feature copied from OSX"

    Yes, shadows are nice - they stop windows smelging into each other... but this is so NOT NEWS.

  3. A Drop Shadows Is a Great UI Cue by EXTomar · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Drop Shadows are simply a great UI indication of "depth" and "boundry". I wish more UI primatives had it. Given a jumble of rectangles which one is the top most? So far the answer has been to highlight or focus the top one differently than the others (ie. title bar is a different color to stand out from the rest which may not work if your focus is different than your top most). Drop Shadows enhances this distinction since your brain has already been looking for the most contiguous rectange and assuming that is the top most. Sometimes that is hard to spot but things like Drop Shadows can help flag where windows end and at a glance show their stacking order.

    Its great that UIs have Drop Shadows but I wonder why they aren't applied to even more primatives? Why don't entire windows have drop shadows?