Created attachment 524940 [details] gedit with Edit menu open in Gnome 3 fallback mode In the current Fedora 16 packages, under the default (Adwaita) theme, dropdown GTK+ 3 menus lack borders (see Screenshot1.png) when running in Gnome 3 fallback mode and other environments such as KDE that are not using gnome-shell. While borderless menus look clean, lack of border makes separating the menu contents from the surroundings more difficult and is inconsistent with how GTK+ 3 applications currently look in gnome-shell (see Screenshot2.png). This issue was not present in Fedora 15.
Created attachment 524941 [details] gedit with Edit menu open in Gnome Shell
triaged to gtk3 component.
-> gnome-themes-standard This is unlikely to change, though.
I guess it is left for window manager to drop shadow, mutter is doing it in gnome-shell, and i can see it in gnome-compiz, but gnome-fallback (metacity) is lacking drop shadows.
My F16 home system has gnome-fallback (video is Intel 865 which is not supported), and dropshadows are active for both windows and menus. My office system is also F16 with gnome-fallback (also Intel 865) and does *not* have drop shadows (which seems to be the normal experience in gnome-fallback). Both systems were fresh F16 installs, but using separate /home from the previous F14 system. So clearly, *something* in my homedir on my home system enables the drop shadows. I have no idea what it is (and #fedora just ridicules me for asking). I tried copying the ~/.theme directory from my home system to the office system, which enables the Sandwish theme. This does not produce drop shadows. On both systems, I installed and tried out the Compiz + classic gnome desktop package. Both systems do have drop shadows under compiz + classic gnome. (Compiz is too unstable in F16, crashing all the time - was rock solid in F14.) However, the drop shadows went away when reverting to gnome-fallback on the office system, but they stuck around on my home system. So, if anyone can figure out the magic config file, F16 *already* supports drop shadows on gnome-fallback!
On my home system, I installed and tried out xfce, but did not do so on the office system. Maybe it did something?
Created attachment 557774 [details] gnome-terminal on system with no drop shadow Screen shot of gnome-terminal on the F16 system that does not have drop shadows. I will now go home, and upload a screenshot of gnome-terminal from the F16 system the *does* have drop shadows.
Created attachment 557777 [details] gnome-terminal on system with drop shadows This is the gnome-terminal screenshot from my home system, which is also running gnome-fallback, but has drop shadows! I just noticed that not only gtk3, but qt programs (e.g. twinkle) have drop shadows on menus, even though other controls have a completely different L&F from gtk3.
Created attachment 557778 [details] twinkle on gnome-fallback with dropshadows Here is a qt program which also has drop shadows. They must be provided by the window manager. As far as I can tell, metacity is running, so it must be the window manager. xfwm4 is not running.
Found that metacity can support drop shadows with its compositing manager. My home system does have compositing_manager set to true, and the office system is set to false. However, setting it to true at the office, and reloading metacity with "metacity --replace &" does not enable drop shadows. Perhaps there is some other package that is also required.
On home system, changing compositing_manager to false turns off drop shadows immediately, and changing it to true turns them on again. Without "metacity --replace". So I'm going to suggest that as the workaround: gconftool-2 --type bool --set /apps/metacity/general/compositing_manager true
I believe comment#11 should close this bug, perhaps after updating a wiki or document somewhere so people can find the solution.
Rex, this problem is handled for me by a metacity config (comment#11). I think this means that gtk3 shouldn't worry about it.
Metacity config doesn't help people using Openbox or other non-compositing window managers. Upstream bug: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=660271
Created attachment 575929 [details] hack to have borders around menus Patch for the benefit of people who don't mind building their own packages.
With the new release of gnome-themes-standard, an updated GTK2 version has been introduced. This tries to mimic the look and feel of the GTK3 Adwaita theme, and also does not provide menu borders, in non-GNOME desktop environments. Btw. relevant upstream BZ: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=660271
fixed upstream. Could we please include the commit: http://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-themes-standard/commit/?id=9c62ba404fa8a76d1c56cce4f066e94ccc637900 in an updated package so we can see this fixed in Fedora 18?
This should appear in the beta with gnome-themes-standard 3.6.1
*** Bug 863400 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Has anybody made a f17 / gnome-themes-standard-3.4 version of this patch?
Created attachment 629205 [details] popup menu without top-border I have tested the patch, and it works in general. From design point of view I guess Cosimo has decided that it would look better if pull down menus won't have a top border (which was the case e.g. with Clearlooks). This results in pop-up/right click context menus to not show top-borders (see screenshot). I am not sure if there is a way to distinguish between menus that are opened from a menu item and general menus (like popup menus or right-click context menus). If so, please add top borders to the latter. If that's not possible, I would like to suggest to add top borders in general. I am going to add this note to the upstream BZ to, for reference.
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Still valid for Fedora 18
Created attachment 748057 [details] gnome-terminal in Fedora 19 In Fedora 19, a similar issue reappeared, but this time borders are absent only for greyed out menu items (see the screenshot (gnome-terminal 3.8.2)). Should I file a new bug?
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Still present on Fedora 20
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