Leleat
Active window hint v2 is bad on semi transparent windows
This active window hint v2 creates new window with given color under parent window. This behavior seems to be not optimal and is looking horribly when parent window is transparent/semi transparent causing this solution worse then before.
This looks really good. Something similar will be much better: https://github.com/forge-ext/forge
This looks really good. Something similar will be much better: https://github.com/forge-ext/forge
I went with a full-sized background to handle windows with rounded edges better but I didn't consider transparent windows. How does forge do it? Do they just leave a gap between the focus hint and the rounded window edges or can they actually round the focus border for all windows properly?
When border size is >2 it is aligned perfectly and there is no gap anywhere. It also works with transparent windows.
What I meant is if there is an implementation the works properly in general, not just for transparent windows.
For instance, Tiling Shell only draws a border with the same rounded corners all around. But it still runs into the problem of some windows not having rounded corners or using a different radius for the roundness. For instance, here is how it looks in Tiling Shell with Firefox. The border also is drawn inside the window, which may cut off content, but that isn't really that important to make my point:
I guess there isn't a good solution to this and I need to revert to the previous behavior of potential gaps between the border and the window...
I'll have some free time next week til the end of the year, I'll fix it then
@EdiDD I've opened https://github.com/Leleat/Tiling-Assistant/pull/386 to address this issue.
I didn't re-implement the previous version of the active window hint 1:1. Previously, I had an 'inner border' that the user could set. The 'inner border' grows into the window so that it would cover the gap between the window hint and rounded window corners. I didn't add that setting this time since that wouldn't really work with transparent windows like current state of the focus hint.
Can you test it and see if it works for you? Here are instructions on how to manually install Tiling Assistant. No problem, if you don't want to test it, I'll just merge it as is after a week or so, if I don't here anything from you anymore.
@Leleat I have just tested it and it works well, can't see any problems. Great work . Thanks.