If the menu.css workaround is not used, the shadows still appear, assuming shadows are used in the gtk theme at all. This is true even with gtk3.17. Getting them off dock windows requires explicit retheming.
I just reinstalled cairo-dock to test this, checked it both with and without my menu.css file. Shadows without it, none with it. This is a gtk issue where dock windows are not a shadow exception, I also run into it with my current DE, a hacked version of MATE built with gtk3 and supporting custom panel themes. There too I had to explicitly remove shadows. In that case it required gtk widget names not only for the menus being themed but also the top level windows containing them, just so shadows could be removed in the panel theme. Not as ugly when the menus directly abut the panel but still garish at round corners. Newest cairo-dock version from Debian Unstable is damned nice, menus rendered larger than before, possibly respecting a previously ignored theme element. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Cairo- Dock Devs, which is subscribed to Cairo-Dock Core. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1407880 Title: Ugly, non-removable shadow around menus and dialog boxe Status in Cairo-Dock Core: Incomplete Bug description: On Cairo-dock 3.4.0 under Ubuntu Vivid, I've noticed ugly shadows around the true window borders of the menu and most dialog boxes. The "calender and tasks" popup from the clock and the 3ed party calender applet do not have this problem, their bubbles look truly separate from the dock the way menus and dialogs do in gnome-shell or in Cinnamon. The rest have an ugly dark shadow at the edge of the window creating the impression of ugly, poorly done pseudo-transparency. This shadow appears in Compiz, in Marco (compositing enabled), and in Metacity(compositing enabled). Disabling window decoration outright in Compiz removes similar shadows from all windows except the cairo- dock popups. I cannot remove this by any configuration option in cairo-dock, nor in any window manager it seems. Shutting down compiz and running with NO window manager may have revealed the reason the calender is different: when rendered with no window manager and no compositing, all the other popup dialogs are rendered in black boxes just as the dock is without compositing. The calender, however, renders in a window that at first is black, then appears truly transparent (probably good pseudotransparency) and reveals the calender looking much as it does in a compositing window manager. I am running cairo-dock rendered over a MATE panel for the menu and tray applets. The goal is a look and feel much like Cinnamon with the better performance of MATE. CPU use is much less and all animation much smoother, but those ugly shadows need to go. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/cairo-dock-core/+bug/1407880/+subscriptions _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~cairo-dock-team Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~cairo-dock-team More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
