[PATCH] desktop icon appearance

[Christopher Blauvelt]

Well, since I made the commit let me present why I made the changes.  I had
been working with David Vignoni to make icons on the desktop prettier since,
they were rather ugly still.  First, we fixed the grid size to something a
little more appealing.  The major reason we decided to get rid of
backgrounds in IconApplet was that they were always a different size.  While
it makes it slightly more difficult to read the text on light backgrounds I
really think that it reduces clutter on the desktop.  This was also David's
thought as well.  To be honest this is the first that I've heard of people
liking the background as everyone I've showed it to remarked how much better
it looks.  Are there any other reason than, "it's hard to see the text on
light backgrounds"?
Chris

2008/1/21 Aaron J. Seigo <aseigo at kde.org>:

> On Monday 21 January 2008, Marco Martin wrote:
> > On Monday 21 January 2008, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> > > 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 =)
> >
> > indeed, a more transparent and ticker border makes me a little bit more
> > happy: http://www.notmart.org/misc/plasma_icons_2pxborder.png
>
> i can certainly live with this =)
>
> > i would still remove the background when the icon is in the panel, it
> makes
> > the view too busy
>
> agreed.
>
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