Bug 439902

Summary: Plasma shadows inconsistent
Product: [Plasma] plasmashell Reporter: medin <med.medin.2014>
Component: Theme - BreezeAssignee: visual-design
Status: RESOLVED INTENTIONAL    
Severity: normal CC: nate, plasma-bugs
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 5.22.3   
Target Milestone: 1.0   
Platform: Other   
OS: Linux   
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Attachments: Plasma shadows inconsistent

Description medin 2021-07-15 19:33:31 UTC
Created attachment 140093 [details]
Plasma shadows inconsistent

If you modify shadow Size and Strength in "Window Decorations" then it will be applied to Qt and GTK apps, but App launcher, Tray widgets, Calendar, Widgets Adder, Desktop and Panels contextual menus, Notifications all of them don't follow the same settings. See attached image for more info.
Comment 1 Nate Graham 2021-07-23 13:57:40 UTC
Right, those shadows are only for app windows. Theme shadows come from the theme itself. This is done precisely so that it's possible for your theme to have different shadows from your app windows. This might seem kinda weird, but it's something that apparently some people like. *shrugs*
Comment 2 medin 2021-07-24 08:31:40 UTC
(In reply to Nate Graham from comment #1)
> This is done precisely so that it's possible for your theme to
> have different shadows from your app windows.

This is really bad design choice, shadows should be unified accross all Plasma desktop including app windows.