Schneegans / Desktop-Cube

🧊 Indulge in nostalgia with useless 3D effects.
GNU General Public License v3.0
635 stars 22 forks source link

Window panes should have thickness #81

Closed johnblommers closed 2 years ago

johnblommers commented 2 years ago

The Motivation

The original Compiz-Fusion gave us the option to give each window some thickness, so it looked like a pane of glass. IIRC you could even adjust the amount of rounding on the four corners.

The Solution

Add an option to Desktop-Cube to add a control to enable and tweak window thickness.

The Alternatives

No alternative comes to mind.

Schneegans commented 2 years ago

Hi there & thanks for the suggestion. However, I am pretty sure that this is not possible. The problem is, that window decorations (the borders, the shadows, etc) are drawn by the clients. In theory, the window could appear to have any shape, parts of it could be transparent, there could be holes in the window. For instance, the splash screen of Celestia looks like this:

splash