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Exposé & window shadow

Submitted by mojo2012 on September 27, 2008 to Aesthetics

If you use exposé the shadow around the window disappear suddenly while the windows get arranged. After choosing a window it flys back to it's normal position. Short after that the shadow suddenly re-appears. This looks quirky ...

Make the shadow fade away more softly when using exposé.

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Discussion (4 comments)

ebaur wrote on September 28, 2008, 4:52pm

What kind of a system are you on? On my iMac (about a year old), the animation is so fast that I had to hold down the shift key to see it.

polycat33 wrote on September 29, 2008, 12:51am

Couldn't reproduce this... the shadow seems to be there immediately after the window comes back into place. (MacBook Pro, 1.25 yrs old).

mojo2012 wrote on September 30, 2008, 9:54am

The immediately is the problem! It should fade in and out seamlessly.

I admin that this is a very minor cosmetic thing. But nonetheless it is there.

@ebaur: I don't need the shift key to see this ;-)

karmaVS wrote on January 10, 2009, 12:55pm

I don’t notice this when they zoom out, but I find it *very* noticable when they come back in; even more-so with Leopard’s comparitively enormous dropshadows. I do hope this gets fixed at some point.

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