Tooltips / quicklist show shadow edges

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

I confirm this behaviour. Moreover, besides the application names, it also concerns the quicklists.

I confirm.

Related or duplicate: Bug #1291838

There are also excessive decorations/shadow around the edges of windows and menus (both global and local menus) compared to previous releases of Unity in earlier Ubuntu releases. Should I open a new bug for this?

Amr Ibrahim, do you think it's really a bug, not an intentional change of the theme? Recently, a new window decorator has been implemented and app windows become borderless. It looks like the shadows around app windows may be wider due to these changes... As for me, I cannot see any ugly window decorations right now. They look fairly nice and smooth to me.
Only tooltip/quicklist shadows have sharp edges.

I think it's a bug yeah. See the picture I attached. The window has too much shadow compared to earlier releases of Unity/Ubuntu. I'm comparing with Ubuntu 12.04 and 13.10.

This also applies to all menus and tooltips.

Amr Ibrahim: that's not a bug, it's a preference. It's configurable, and is set to be bigger than in previous versions.

excuse me but when it comes by default and looks like this, its a bug and shouldnt be released like that.
either make a different shadow size for unity tooltips or something... it looks f* up xD

Jaime, Amr is talking about the big shadows on windows, not on the Unity tooltips. The tooltips' shadows being clipped is considered a bug, while the windows having a larger shadow is just a change in 14.04.

Jonathan, oh... yeh dont change the window's shadow size they make sense with borderless.

This bug was fixed in the package unity - 7.1.2+14.04.20140328.1-0ubuntu1

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unity (7.1.2+14.04.20140328.1-0ubuntu1) trusty; urgency=low

  [ Robert Ancell ]
  * Call pam_acct_mgmt and pam_chauthtok when unlocking screen (LP:
    #1296443)

  [ Stephen M. Webb ]
  * restart unity-panel-service for only the current session when
    restarting unity from the command line (LP: #777594)

  [ Brandon Schaefer ]
  * When we see an escape in lockscreen prompt, clear the password. (LP:
    #1292647)

  [ Andrea Azzarone ]
  * Fixes the double lockscreen when switching users. (LP: #1291088)

  [ Marco Trevisan (Treviño) ]
  * Tooltip, QuicklistView: use the decoration shadow radius for
    computing padding (LP: #1291407)
  * 02_unity_setup_text_scale_factor: actually make it working, copy the
    gnome value to unity (LP: #1298492)
  * IconRenderer: scale textures when loading them based on the current
    launcher scaling Add SVG textures for tiles and markers (thanks to
    Matthieu James) to replace .pngs, also make them themable. (LP:
    #1297588)
 -- Ubuntu daily release <email address hidden> Fri, 28 Mar 2014 10:16:02 +0000

Now it looks fine. Thanks!