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Screenshot tool for Linux
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Drop Shadow on shapes in DrawingTool #15

Open Photon89 opened 4 years ago

Photon89 commented 4 years ago

I am trying to add a drop shadow to a rectangular shape that I am using to highlight part of a screen shot. Is there any way of doing this? Is it a Plug-in ? Thx :)

Launchpad Details: #LP360542 Mario Kemper (Romario) - 2009-04-13 15:17:41 +0000

Photon89 commented 4 years ago

Shutter uses GooCanvas (a canvas widget for GTK+ that uses the cairo 2D library for drawing) and there is no built-in-functionality for adding shadows to arbitrary shapes (as far as I know).

We have to be very careful related to performance in general and I don't think that a custom implementation of adding shadows would be the best idea here. I totally agree that this is a "nice-to-have" feature but it is too much work for the current milestone 0.80 for now (at least for me - if anyone else wants to contribute...just do it).

Don't know what milestone fits best currently.

Launchpad Details: #LPC Mario Kemper (Romario) - 2009-06-12 00:04:54 +0000