Ubuntu consistency changes

[John Nilsson]

On Thu, 2005-10-13 at 00:11 +0100, Sitsofe Wheeler wrote:
> When Ubuntu prompts for a password, the password window has no
> border. This makes it feel very strange and does not draw attention
> to it (focus appears to be elsewhere looking at titlebar colours).

I've been playing with the code for this. My plan was to have a full
screen blur effect behind the password window. But I've got a little
problem: Using gdk_pixbuf_get_from_drawable() to get the whole screen
from the server is a _VERY_ slow operation.

Does anyone have a better idea? I think that the operation can be
accelerated with SHM but that requires the server and client on the same
computer, which is kind of ugly.

I noticed that there was code copied that would shade the screen
instead, is anyone working on that?

Regards,
John Nilsson

P.S. If anything above sounds stupid, it's because I'm using this as an
excuse to learn C, GDK/GTK+, X11 and GLib at the same time. D.S.