[PATCH] desktop icon appearance

Aaron J. Seigo aseigo at kde.org
Mon Jan 21 21:27:02 CET 2008


On Monday 21 January 2008, Marco Martin 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?)

the problem is probably that the contrast border has too much contrast. 
perhaps one of the artists could comment on it; it may make sense to do more 
than a single pixel and make it a nice blend, even. again, visual  design is 
not my area of expertise, but i know that a single hi-contrast stroke is not 
the only possibility here =)

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