Shadow behind Cinammon panel?

[Forkjulle]

I know that Cinnamon is still being developed, but I'd like to know if the panel will be getting a shadow behind it? Right now, it's flat, unlike the Ubuntu top panel, for example. I know that the shadow won't work with transparent panels, but it does look quite good with opaque panels.

Perhaps an option to turn the shadow on / off?

Does anyone know?

[xenopeek]

I think any theme artist can add shadow; styling is with CSS after all and you can add shadow to elements with CSS. Perhaps one of the themes at http://cinnamon-spices.linuxmint.com/ already has it.

[bimsebasse]

1) Lots of themes to choose from, you don't have to stick to the default one
2) No panel shadow is a design decision, not a sign of something being in development
3) You can add it yourself like this:

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sudo gedit /usr/share/cinnamon/theme/cinnamon.css

Find this section:

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#panel {
   color: #ffffff;
   background-color: #555555;
   font-size: 8.5pt;
   font-weight: normal;
   height: 25px;
}

Add this line to it:

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box-shadow: 0px 0px 2px 4px rgba(0,0,0,0.6);

The line adds a shadow effect around the panel with 2px blur and 4px spread where the black shadow color has 0.6 transparency (1.0 = opaque, 0.0 = transparent)