[squeak-dev] Drop shadows during grabbing

Tobias Pape Das.Linux at gmx.de
Mon Nov 9 18:25:15 UTC 2020



> On 9. Nov 2020, at 18:44, tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org> wrote:
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>> On 2020-11-09, at 12:01 AM, Marcel Taeumel <marcel.taeumel at hpi.de> wrote:
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>> Hi Christoph.
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>>> I wonder whether we should turn off drop shadows during grabbing a morph?
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> Honestly, I'd vote for dumping drop shadows entirely. It's an old, tired, neo-skeuomorphic approach that lingers on from the old days of pretending that some sort of photorealistic model of a messy desk would magically make everyone's lives organised.
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> It's dead Jim. Let's not render the corpse in 4k quality.

In macOS, no windows have borders. Without drop shadows there's no way to discern them.
The shadow is now the border.
-t


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