[UIFE] tweaks to compiz for maverick

Email below with background info:

Hello guys
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/compiz/+bug/634417

As described in the bug report above, we (design team) decided to change two default options for package compiz. Essentially:
1) the inactive window decorations are no longer transparent (that should not affect any doc, neither sshots)
2) we shifted the shadow down by 4 pixels. The rationale behind this is that the shadow over the menubar item when a menu was opened (the shadow of the menu over the menubar item) was ruining the "merged/blended" appearance of the menu/menubaritem in the new Ambiance/Radiance themes: if you move the shadow down by 4 pixels the shadow disappears almost, and the menubaritem looks like it is part of the menu (something we decided).

That decision was taken in July, but it's our fault because nobody took care of patching compiz, so I did it personally two weeks ago, after UI freeze (didn't have time before). Sorry.
-- Andrea Cimitan - http://www.cimitan.com

Too bad about the transparent window title, I really liked it. But anyway, that's just a personal and random statement.

I'm more concerned about the "move shadow 4 pixels off" -- that sounds like the menu shadow would then be disjoined from the actual menu popup? That would be very strange. Do you have a screenshot of this?

On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 12:27 AM, Martin Pitt <email address hidden> wrote:
> Too bad about the transparent window title, I really liked it. But
> anyway, that's just a personal and random statement.
>
> I'm more concerned about the "move shadow 4 pixels off" -- that sounds
> like the menu shadow would then be disjoined from the actual menu popup?
> That would be very strange. Do you have a screenshot of this?
>

I would describe it like this: the shadow is shifted 4 pixels down, so
you see a 4px longer shadow on the bottom and a 4px shorter shadow on
top.

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> - [FFe] tweaks to compiz for maverick
> + [UIFE] tweaks to compiz for maverick
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Sam Spilsbury

That would mean that the bottom shadow is much thicker than the right side one; doesn't that look odd?

On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 6:45 PM, Martin Pitt <email address hidden> wrote:
> That would mean that the bottom shadow is much thicker than the right
> side one; doesn't that look odd?
>

Try it for yourself,

If you have the gconf backend in use, open ccsm and play around with
the shadow settings in the decoration plugin.

Otherwise open gconf-editor, go to /apps/gwd/ and play around with the
shadow offsets there.

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Sam Spilsbury

Updating assignment and status for the record

This bug was fixed in the package compiz - 1:0.8.6-0ubuntu8

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compiz (1:0.8.6-0ubuntu8) maverick; urgency=low

  * debian/compiz-gnome.gconf-defaults
    - move the shadow 4 pixels down, in order to reduce the shadow between
      menubaritems and the menu frame (LP: #634417)

  * debian/patches/029_default_options.patch
    - get rid of the transparency on the unfocused window frame. (LP: #634417)
 -- Ken VanDine <email address hidden> Tue, 21 Sep 2010 16:59:27 -0400

Unsubscribing the release team to get it off the team buglist.

This didn’t work for me; instead it made the inactive windows _more_ transparent. When I run gtk-window-decorator manually, it spews the following message to stderr:

GConf Error: Type mismatch: Expected `float' got `int' for key /apps/gwd/metacity_theme_opacity

(Perhaps it should have been set to 1.0 instead of 1?)

This fixes debian/compiz-gnome.gconf-defaults to specify /apps/gwd/metacity_theme_opacity as a float instead of an int.

Thank you, will try to fix this soon!

Hy!

I installed an update today, that referenced this bug..
  * debian/patches/029_default_options.patch
    - get rid of the transparency on the unfocused window frame. (LP: #634417)

This is the change that made my unfocused windows border nearly invisible?
If yes:
- what's the point of this? It's really ugly and unusable :(
- how can I make them visible again?

Hmm, actually if I tell gconf-editor to unset key /apps/gwd/metacity_theme_opacity then everything get back to normal until gtk-window-decorator started again that resets back the value to integer/1 what it can't understand afterwards :(

u-foka: Yes, the patch in 0.8.6-0ubuntu8 was wrong. Read my comments #9 and #10 above. A workaround is to edit /usr/share/gconf/defaults/10_compiz-gnome to change ‘1’ to ‘1.0’, then run ‘sudo update-gconf-defaults’.

Fixed in 0.8.6-0ubuntu9.

compiz (1:0.8.6-0ubuntu9) maverick; urgency=low

  * debian/compiz-gnome.gconf-defaults: /apps/gwd/metacity_theme_opacity
    is a float (1.0), not int (1).

 -- Anders Kaseorg <email address hidden> Fri, 24 Sep 2010 21:09:32 -0400

This is fixed in Maverick, and I assume there’s nothing to do anywhere else (feel free to reopen if I’m wrong).