gksudo feature request - Grey out the background

[Jeff Waugh]

<quote who="Eric Feliksik">

> A different window decoration would indeed be okay; but currently, the
> whole window decoration isn't usable (it's disabled from input).
> 
> I think a change of brightness would be annoying - but just grayscaling is
> quite subtle (and hardly noticable if there's a big window in the
> background, as white stays white). Just the feedback that's needed: "hey,
> only one window can be used right now".
> 
> I won't keep on nagging, but I must at least ask people here to try it
> with a screenshot and a grayscaled version of it :)

I guess the major reason that ideas like this get a quiet reception is that
until COMPOSITE works nicely on lots of systems, we really can't do these
kinds of things nicely. See the logout fade as an example - because we need
everything but the front dialogue to be dimmed, it's pretty ugly. If we get
reliable COMPOSITE in future, we can greyscale everything else quite easily,
similar to what you're describing for the password dialogue (however, I
still don't think it's a subdued enough effect for the purpose).

- Jeff

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