2008/1/21 Aaron J. Seigo <<a href="mailto:aseigo@kde.org">aseigo@kde.org</a>>:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">On Monday 21 January 2008, Christopher Blauvelt wrote:<br>> remarked how much better it looks. Are there any other reason than, "it's<br>> hard to see the text on light backgrounds"?
<br><br></div>to discourage people from using icons? ;) kidding, kidding.<br><br>no, it's primarily due to background contrast (no colour combo will prevent<br>that without a background or a text halo, btw). one could go about
<br>implementing text halos, but i'm not about to ask for that unless you (or<br>someone like you) feels particularly compelled to do so; this still doesn't<br>give us the "all in one" feel of having a unified background.
</blockquote><div> </div><div>This seems like a lot of work given their planned obsolescence in 12 months. <br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>particularly when we start using the icon actions again i think this will help<br>things.</blockquote><div><br>I'm not so sure. It's not more difficult to mouse-over an icon then it was before and the applet handle appears as expected.
<br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br><br>also, i had an interesting working demo using QGraphicsScene when it *first*
<br>was in tech preview where i painted part of the background on *top* of the<br>icon on selection to show that it was indeed selected and the whole thing on<br>hover to provide access to the hover interface.<br><br>i'd like to experiment with that again at some point as it was really quite
<br>interesting.</blockquote><div><br></div></div>I planned on re-enabling the background when an Icon was selected. This of course would require implementation of a selection object.<br><br>Chris<br>