[PATCH] desktop icon appearance

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On Monday 21 January 2008, Christopher Blauvelt wrote:
> remarked how much better it looks.  Are there any other reason than, "it's
> hard to see the text on light backgrounds"?

to discourage people from using icons? ;) kidding, kidding.

no, it's primarily due to background contrast (no colour combo will prevent 
that without a background or a text halo, btw). one could go about 
implementing text halos, but i'm not about to ask for that unless you (or 
someone like you) feels particularly compelled to do so; this still doesn't 
give us the "all in one" feel of having a unified background.

particularly when we start using the icon actions again i think this will help 
things.

also, i had an interesting working demo using QGraphicsScene when it *first* 
was in tech preview where i painted part of the background on *top* of the 
icon on selection to show that it was indeed selected and the whole thing on 
hover to provide access to the hover interface.

i'd like to experiment with that again at some point as it was really quite 
interesting.

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Aaron J. Seigo
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