Bug 364194 - Now way to tell windows apart and to find which window is active when compositing is off
Summary: Now way to tell windows apart and to find which window is active when composi...
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: Oxygen
Classification: Plasma
Component: win deco (show other bugs)
Version: 5.5.5
Platform: Other Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Hugo Pereira Da Costa
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Reported: 2016-06-10 18:03 UTC by Ruslan Kabatsayev
Modified: 2022-11-20 05:12 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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2016-06-10 18:05 UTC, Ruslan Kabatsayev
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Description Ruslan Kabatsayev 2016-06-10 18:03:47 UTC
In KF5 oxygen window decorations now lack "ugly shadows" which in KDE4 served at least two purposes:

1. Visually separate different windows
2. Indicate which window is active (similarly to shadow vs glow)

In KF5, since no ugly shadows are drawn, oxygen window decoration without compositing is unusable. I'll attach a screenshot.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Turn off compositing
2. Open System Settings, on a page where much of the background is system background color — e.g. Compositor page
3. Open Konsole, move the window over the one opened in step 2, so that Konsole top is near the top of System Settings window top
4. Try to tell:
    a) where Konsole window ends and System Settings starts
    b) which one is active when you move them apart so that they don't overlap

Actual Results:  
Step 4 is quite hard to do.

Expected Results:  
Step 4 should be at least as easy as it was in KDE4.

Tested on stock Kubuntu 16.04 LiveISO.
Comment 1 Ruslan Kabatsayev 2016-06-10 18:05:07 UTC
Created attachment 99443 [details]
Screenshot of the problem
Comment 2 Hugo Pereira Da Costa 2016-06-10 20:04:34 UTC
Hi Ruslan,
Agreed, this was not ported.
You can however uncheck the new option "use the same color for the titlebar and the window content"

This will make the decoration use the "active" and "inactive" colors, and fix the issue (in the same way as breeze does)
Comment 3 Justin Zobel 2022-10-21 23:59:58 UTC
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Comment 4 Bug Janitor Service 2022-11-05 05:08:37 UTC
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Comment 5 Bug Janitor Service 2022-11-20 05:12:53 UTC
This bug has been in NEEDSINFO status with no change for at least
30 days. The bug is now closed as RESOLVED > WORKSFORME
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