Beautifying the nocover image in the currenttrack applet

[Seb Ruiz]

2008/12/4 Big O <illogical1 at gmail.com>:
> 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.

Heh, no, the first image is the improvement.

>
> 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?
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