Beautifying the nocover image in the currenttrack applet

[Big O]

On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 5:42 PM, Seb Ruiz <ruiz at kde.org> wrote:
> 2008/12/4 Casey Link <unnamedrambler at gmail.com>:
>> Attached is a patch that produces the following change in the
>> currenttrack applet
>>
>> http://binaryelysium.com/images/Amarok_nocover_compare.png
>>
>> As far as I can tell there is no way to resize the currenttrack applet
>> (yet), so this value will be fine until that changes. Also, if there
>> is an actual cover it is still resized accordingly. If the actual
>> cover > 156 then it will be downscaled - and still look good. If there
>> actual cover is < 156 the it will be upscaled - and look not so good,
>> but it has always been this way.
>
> Looks much better, you get my big rubber stamp of approval.
>
I'm either blind or looking at something totally different from all of
you but the second image (the improvement yes?) looks worse than the
first.

What I'm talking about:
Look at the cover image on top, it has soft shadows around the no-cover image.
Look at the image on the bottom, it has a dark, rigid shadow all
around it. (I don't think that even counts as a shadow anymore) I
usually notice this after a few tracks have been played (as if the
shadows are being superimposed on each other).
Is this patch supposed to make that dark shadow standard?