Enabling Compiz by default?

Jon Nettleton jon.nettleton at gmail.com
Fri Aug 10 19:51:07 UTC 2007


On 8/10/07, Jeff Spaleta <jspaleta at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 8/10/07, darrell pfeifer <darrellpf at gmail.com> wrote:
> > First, it is visually distracting.
>
> >
> > Second, it hides useful information. If the window wan't greyed out I
> > could continue to read information in the window (eg firefox) while
> > waiting.
>
> You are arguing about shades of grey or is it gray.  Would it make you
> happier if the grey wasn't as dark?  Compared to crap like pop-up
> notification bubbles from the panel, i'd say greying the window is a
> comparably subtle way of giving you status information.  If you were
> going to indicate that a window how would you do it?


I think greying out, or darkening  the window decoration would make
a lot more sense.  You  get minor  visual clues, without it being
distracting,
and it allows you to see what the window is/was trying to do.

Jon
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