Comment 8 for bug 731685

If it's unity-window-decorator that draws the normal window shadows, why shouldn't it also be made to draw the panel shadow in the same way? At most, unity-window-decorator would need a little bit of logic to match the Dock window type. Admittedly that might affect the Launcher too... But my limited understanding of the unity code is suggesting to me that there are two separate components which draw shadows, and really there should be only one.

I guess it falls into the bucket of re-unifying compiz-window-decorator and unity-window-decorator. I'm sure I saw a blueprint for that somewhere...

Please do correct me if this is just wild speculation :)