None of the windows have drop shadows
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@andrejpetrovic Unfortunately that works only on Plasma 6. At least on my Debian 12 Plasma 5, Window Decorations have no effect. Both rules have no effect.
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@luetage said in None of the windows have drop shadows:
We can’t know whether Vivaldi would have made it by writing native apps
That's true.
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Observation. Mentioned steps for enabling window shadows works only if Vivaldi flag "Preferred Ozone platform" is Default, which isX11. If it is set to Wayland, then this workaround is not working.
However if flag is Default, then typing text in Vivaldi randomly starts to be delayed.
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Coming from the future, this is how Vivaldi looks on Fedora 42 with Wayland enabled:
No screen border, no shadow and somehow this feels unfinished. Did set Preferred Ozone Platform to Wayland to avoid fonts being blurred and crappy on my device, but in this case (GNOME desktop) I cannot make use of Native Window decoration either.
Any recommended way to add a border in this case?
Thanks very much!(Edit for clarity: There's a white window behind the Vivaldi window...)
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@z428
Hi, the same in KDE, Vivaldi doesn't use system windows, it use it's own.
You can enable Nativ Window, then it use the DE window decoration.
Some users don't like the extra space even all other apps have it either.
I use a darker theme so I don't need it at all.Cheers, mib
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@mib2berlin Thanks...
Yeah tried that too but it looks like a visual abhorrence on GNOME...
... maybe I need to reconsider KDE again. Somehow this seems to all have turned considerably messy the last couple of years.
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@z428
Yes, this looks really ugly.
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@mib2berlin Ah yeah that's a tough topic. I'm a nerd for visual stuff and KDE cuts my fingers and eyes every other day with what feels like a myriad of minor and irrelevant annoyances - like odd font sizes, weird word wraps, too many font faces, weird alignments of controls and dialogs (just looking at KDE control center where every other panel looks and feels completely different) and it feels like choosing between GNOME with a limited set of features and some annoyances like this - and KDE which seems just missing a lot of love for this kind of polish (or maybe skill/talent/desire to fix obvious "flaws"). But guess that's off topic here...
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@z428
Hm, checked Plasma/KDE 6? They spend a lot in fine tuning.
On the other side we had users change browsers because of a small line under the address bar.
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@mib2berlin I'm usually going with KDE on my everyday working system for like six months, maybe a bit longer or less, then and now, but always somehow went back to GNOME because KDE made me just nervous and also had a bunch of more serious issues no one apparently felt like fixing (like things being a complete and utter mess using a laptop with different external displays on docking stations in different offices which drastically failed on KDE every other week, resulting in my screen setup being completely gone or fonts being unreadably small on one device while being chunky and big on the other and at some point it felt like wasting effort on something that just worked out of the box in GNOME and even with having issues reported for that, this didn't seem to have much priority to really address, rude workarounds aside, like https://discuss.kde.org/t/frustrating-issues-with-kde-not-remembering-monitor-arrangement-and-panel-settings/28621/2 ). Guess I'll try that with Plasma again at some point but I unfortunately have little hope for these things to fundamentally have improved...
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