There is a patch for aterm that gives a dropshawdow to the text. Attatched is the patch and a new ebuild which makes use of a new USE flag of dropshadow.
Created attachment 36307 [details, diff] patch to the aterm source This patch was orginally made by the aterm development team and was found in the following thread. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=97688
Created attachment 36308 [details] Ebuild to apply the patch This ebuild is the same as the 0.4.2-r9 except it applies the new patch and adds a new USE varible.
I'm sorry, but such a small additional feature does not justify adding a new USE flag (even a local one). Looking at the code seems to indicate that once the patch is applied, all aterm windows will have the dropshadow effect enabled, right? If this is the case, then we can't add the patch. It would be pretty nice if it was possible to enable/disable it with an command-line option (just as you can do with transparency now).
Your reading of the patch is correct. I don't know if this will be changed to make it a command line switch, though I agree that would be nice.
Well, maybe it's time to bug the patch authors a little bit? :) Making it configurable isn't that much of a hassle, so I'm sure they'd be willing to help ;) Before that happens, we'll have to wait. I'm marking this as "LATER" which in this case means "when a nicer patch is made".
Cleaning my bug list.. -- marked as closed.