<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 27, 2008 3:33 AM, Sven Burmeister <<a href="mailto:sven.burmeister@gmx.net">sven.burmeister@gmx.net</a>> wrote:<br><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 Sonntag, 27. Januar 2008, Marco Martin wrote:<br>> > Above is a screenshot of panel text with a shadow so text can be seen on<br>> > white desktop backgrounds. My biggest problems with backgrounds on icons<br>
> > is that they aren't the same size. I think the best effect would be to<br>> > show the background on hover events and when selected. When that does<br>> > happen, they still should be the same size for the same size icon.<br>
> > Thoughts?<br>><br>> i think that for a shadow that looks ok a fast blurring function is<br>> needed (and it's totally black magic for me :P) and then at least on<br>> mousehover the background is still needed to correlate the icon with<br>
> text and action icon</div></blockquote><div><br>Agreed<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;"><div class="Ih2E3d">
<br><br></div>In KDE3 there was a shadow around every letter which is a lot clearer than the<br>normal shadow because it sourrounds the letter everywhere and not just one or<br>two sides. IMHO normal shadows are not enough compared to what the background<br>
or sourrounding shadows achieve.<br><font color="#888888"><br>Sven<br></font><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">_______________________________________________<br>Panel-devel mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Panel-devel@kde.org">Panel-devel@kde.org</a><br>
<a href="https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/panel-devel" target="_blank">https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/panel-devel</a><br></div></div></blockquote></div><br><br>I remember and I've been looking into doing this by porting the functions to kdesktop.<br>