Opacity of resource boxes

[Thomas Pfeiffer]

On 28.03.2012 14:46, Marco Martin wrote:
> On Wednesday 28 March 2012, Fania Bremmer wrote:
>>>
>>> Just to bring this up again: What do the others think? We still need
>>> to harmonize Plasmoids and resource boxes, so we need a clear decision
>>> on this.
>>
>> I thought Marco already experiment with the opacity of the boxes? We
>> agreed here in the last sprint in Darmstadt, that we should definitly
>> make the boxes less "grey rectangulish"... So from me a +1.
>> Only concern would be the readability of the labels. That needs to be
>> tested.
>
> with resource boxes with the translucent version of the background looks like
> this:
> http://i.imgur.com/Kb84z.png
> (to me, quite omg my eyes are bleeding)

Agreed, this does hurt the eyes as well. Maybe this was too much transparency?
I just played with the current theme (well, not sure if it's still current as I 
haven't been able to update for a week or so): I added a notes plasmoid, 
switched the notes background to translucent and switched the activity 
background to the darkest one and then to the noisiest one I could find (see 
screenshots). Even there I could still read the text on the Plasmoid (at least 
the title and first row of text, which seem to have a brighter background than 
the rest). So maybe this opacity and color (maybe with a little tweaking) would 
work for resource boxes as well? I don't know. But there is still a lot of room 
between the current plain almost-completely-opaque grey and the almost complete 
transparency in your screenshot.

I'm confident that we can find values which make text readable without looking 
like a piece of grey.

Cheers,
Thomas

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