[PATCH] desktop icon appearance

Marco Martin notmart at gmail.com
Mon Jan 21 21:02:41 CET 2008


On Monday 21 January 2008, Andre Magalhaes wrote:
> I really believe the icons shouldn't have any background, and if they have,
> make it optional and make the background the same size for all icons
> (use the biggest one as the size of all the others).

i think it would require a lot of special code in iconloader that would make 
everything a little bit uglier :(

> IMHO It's really strange to have an icon background and even more strange
> if each one has a different size.
>
> BR
>
> On Jan 21, 2008 4:30 PM, Marco Martin <notmart at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Monday 21 January 2008, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> > > > -removing the 1px border that now it has
> > >
> > > i don't think we can do this, really; reason: then on dark backgrounds
> > > you can't see it properly. it really does need a contrast border.
> >
> > hmm, to have a good contrast a border with a light color should be
> > needed, but tried it and i think it's really really ugly :(
> > example at http://www.notmart.org/misc/plasma_icons_21-1-08.png
> > in particular in the panel (remove the background in the panel?)




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