Drop-down menus look disembodied from their titles

This bug will need to be fixed in compiz (as an option). Chop shadow tops. There is something to be said for having the shadow show again if the window it is modal for is not under that part of the window. I will discuss with sam and come up with a solution for compiz.

Jason: pass that on to Cimi when there is something to fix at the theme level.

Fix for this was released ages ago. closing.

Reproduced with a new user account in Ubuntu Natty with all updates installed, including compiz 1:0.9.4+bzr20110415-0ubuntu2 and light-themes 0.1.8.13. I don't see any difference at all.

Actually, there's a slight difference in that the menu is now 1px to the right of where it was, making it line up better. But the shadow seems just as bad as before.

Definitely important for LIM

Cool. But fix committed where?

Does not work perfectly here, on the desktop the shadow is not casted, and when you switch between menuitems in the panel you see the shadow appearing on top and then being cut. Shall we revert?

Cimi, I'm not sure there was any fix committed in the first place. Unless Sam thinks r3086 of lp:compiz-core should fix this bug?...

Yep in the code there are matches for menus as well, but they seem to cause issues there and there. If the shadow clipping is done with a redraw as it is now, it's better not to clip at all.

This bug can be considered fixed when it behaves cleanly like mutter... at this moment, IMHO, it's better to revert or to remove the window class match.

Confirmed that this bug is only partially fixed and still occurs about 30% of the time. Also, there seems to be a regression with 0.9.7.6 where panel menus get no shadows at all half the time.

Cimi, I have logged the regression as bug 977718.

In theory this bug could easily be fixed by redrawing the menu title part in the panel after the menu itself has rendered. At the moment, the unity panel draws the title early so as to improve visual responsiveness. I remember because I wrote the code.

I changed the inactive shadow color to be red, so the bug is more visible :)

This bug was fixed in the package compiz - 1:0.9.7.6-0ubuntu1

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compiz (1:0.9.7.6-0ubuntu1) precise; urgency=low

  [ Didier Roche ]
  * New upstream release:
    - Memory leak in dlloaderListPlugins (LP: #968985)
    - priv->invisible is not updated when the window is mapped (LP: #969102)
    - window management, multi-monitor - In multi-monitor environment, windows
      should spread on the monitor in which they reside (LP: #919139)
    - Drop-down menus look disembodied from their titles (LP: #659816)
    - Improve performace of the shadow clipping code (LP: #931883)
    - DecorWindow::computeShadowRegion called way too much (LP: #969101)
    - white box randomly shows up at top left corner blocking application
      from using stuff under it (LP: #940603)
  * Rebuild against latest metacity to get the HUD key configuration
    exposed in unity 3D as well (LP: #969256)
  * debian/patches/ubuntu-config.patch:
    - set multioutput_mode to all outputs (windows to be scaled on each the
      monitor they are on only) (LP: #919139)
  * debian/patches/fix_976467.patch:
    - Fix shadows being clipped incorrectly (LP: #976467)

  [ Oliver Grawert ]
  * update the GLES2 patch for the new upstream release.
 -- Didier Roche <email address hidden> Wed, 11 Apr 2012 18:35:39 +0200

This bug was never fixed. It was release noted by accident.

On Thu, 12 Apr 2012, Daniel van Vugt wrote:

> This bug was never fixed. It was release noted by accident.
>

I believe it was referring to the indicators and global menu case. In
those cases, it is indeed, fixed.

Its not possible to fix this bug for the old style non global menus. LIM
is another story, but definitely fixable.

This is why the fix was release noted. If you think it isn't fixed, then
please explain why.

> ** Changed in: compiz (Ubuntu)
> Status: Fix Released => Triaged
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> ** Changed in: compiz (Ubuntu)
> Assignee: Jason Smith (jassmith) => Sam Spilsbury (smspillaz)
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Wow, OK. Every time I compiled and tested the latest shadowing fixes, they never worked for me on precise. But now I'm running them from the PPA, it works.

I'm happy to be wrong. Bug fixed in 0.9.7.6.