[compiz] patch for colored drop-shadow

[Quinn Storm]

I've gone ahead and applied this in my CVS, I was waiting to see first
if it would be applied upstream but it appears unlikely that that will
happen.

On Tue, 25 Apr 2006 20:28:09 +0200
Mirco Müller <macslow at bangang.de> wrote:

> Greetings everybody!
> 
> 	Here's a patch (against compiz from CVS-head about 30 min.
> ago) that adds a shadow_color option to the parameters of the
> decoration-plugin. I only needed to add a few lines to decoration.c
> and gnome-window-decorator.c. The only thing missing is the
> compiz.schema. I dare not touch that XML-file manually. So after you
> applied the patch, recompiled compiz and restarted g-w-d and compiz
> you'll have to fire up gconf-editor and add a string-parameter with
> the name shadow_color yourself.
> 
> 	You can use the normal HTML-like syntax for defining the
> wanted color:
> 
> 	#fff or #ffffff -> white
> 	#f00 or #ff0000 -> red
> 	#f73 or #ff7733 -> orange
> 
> 	You get the idea. If you don't follow this scheme your
> setting will be ignored. Note that there's no alpha/opacity value
> used. This is left untouched. There's already the option
> shadow_opacity for this. BTW, it takes a moment for the changed
> setting to apply. I don't know if that's normal. David what's your
> call on this?
> 
> 	Finally, here's a screenshot to show you how careful you
> should be with chosing your new shadow_color :)
> 
> 	http://macslow.thepimp.net/shots/colored-drop-shadows.png
> 
> Best regards...
> 
> MacSlow