diff --git a/resources/qml/ActionButton.qml b/resources/qml/ActionButton.qml
index 69d65e1c3f..8cd53b5d7e 100644
--- a/resources/qml/ActionButton.qml
+++ b/resources/qml/ActionButton.qml
@@ -5,6 +5,8 @@ import QtQuick 2.7
 import QtQuick.Controls 2.1
 import QtQuick.Layouts 1.3
 
+import QtGraphicalEffects 1.0 // For the dropshadow
+
 import UM 1.1 as UM
 
 Button
@@ -26,6 +28,9 @@ Button
     property color outlineHoverColor: hoverColor
     property color outlineDisabledColor: outlineColor
 
+    property alias shadowColor: shadow.color
+    property alias shadowEnabled: shadow.visible
+
     // This property is used to indicate whether the button has a fixed width or the width would depend on the contents
     // Be careful when using fixedWidthMode, the translated texts can be too long that they won't fit. In any case,
     // we elide the text to the right so the text will be cut off with the three dots at the end.
@@ -70,6 +75,19 @@ Button
         border.color: button.enabled ? (button.hovered ? button.outlineHoverColor : button.outlineColor) : button.outlineDisabledColor
     }
 
+    DropShadow
+    {
+        id: shadow
+        // Don't blur the shadow
+        radius: 0
+        anchors.fill: backgroundRect
+        source: backgroundRect
+        verticalOffset: 2
+        visible: false
+        // Should always be drawn behind the background.
+        z: backgroundRect.z - 1
+    }
+
     ToolTip
     {
         id: tooltip
diff --git a/resources/qml/ActionPanel/SliceProcessWidget.qml b/resources/qml/ActionPanel/SliceProcessWidget.qml
index 2d4a7b6b89..4f10e6879b 100644
--- a/resources/qml/ActionPanel/SliceProcessWidget.qml
+++ b/resources/qml/ActionPanel/SliceProcessWidget.qml
@@ -87,28 +87,27 @@ Column
         width: parent.width
         height: UM.Theme.getSize("action_panel_button").height
         fixedWidthMode: true
-        text:
-        {
-            if ([UM.Backend.NotStarted, UM.Backend.Error].indexOf(widget.backendState) != -1)
-            {
-                return catalog.i18nc("@button", "Slice")
-            }
-            if (autoSlice)
-            {
-                return catalog.i18nc("@button", "Auto slicing...")
-            }
-            return catalog.i18nc("@button", "Cancel")
-        }
-        enabled: !autoSlice && !disabledSlice
 
         // Get the current value from the preferences
         property bool autoSlice: UM.Preferences.getValue("general/auto_slice")
         // Disable the slice process when
         property bool disabledSlice: [UM.Backend.Done, UM.Backend.Error].indexOf(widget.backendState) != -1
 
-        disabledColor: disabledSlice ? UM.Theme.getColor("action_button_disabled") : "transparent"
-        textDisabledColor: disabledSlice ?  UM.Theme.getColor("action_button_disabled_text") : UM.Theme.getColor("primary")
-        outlineDisabledColor: disabledSlice ? UM.Theme.getColor("action_button_disabled_border") : "transparent"
+        text:
+        {
+            if ([UM.Backend.NotStarted, UM.Backend.Error].indexOf(widget.backendState) != -1)
+            {
+                return catalog.i18nc("@button", "Slice")
+            }
+            return catalog.i18nc("@button", "Cancel")
+        }
+        enabled: !autoSlice && !disabledSlice
+        visible: !autoSlice
+
+        disabledColor: UM.Theme.getColor("action_button_disabled")
+        textDisabledColor: UM.Theme.getColor("action_button_disabled_text")
+        shadowEnabled: true
+        shadowColor: enabled ? UM.Theme.getColor("action_button_shadow"): UM.Theme.getColor("action_button_disabled_shadow")
 
         onClicked: sliceOrStopSlicing()
     }
diff --git a/resources/themes/cura-light/theme.json b/resources/themes/cura-light/theme.json
index fefc4adc14..748a4e2643 100644
--- a/resources/themes/cura-light/theme.json
+++ b/resources/themes/cura-light/theme.json
@@ -173,6 +173,8 @@
         "action_button_disabled": [245, 245, 245, 255],
         "action_button_disabled_text": [127, 127, 127, 255],
         "action_button_disabled_border": [245, 245, 245, 255],
+        "action_button_shadow": [64, 47, 205, 255],
+        "action_button_disabled_shadow": [228, 228, 228, 255],
 
         "print_button_ready": [50, 130, 255, 255],
         "print_button_ready_border": [50, 130, 255, 255],