[PATCH] desktop icon appearance

[Christopher Blauvelt]

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

> 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.


This seems like a lot of work given their planned obsolescence in 12
months.


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


I'm not so sure.  It's not more difficult to mouse-over an icon then it was
before and the applet handle appears as expected.


>
>
> 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.


I planned on re-enabling the background when an Icon was selected.  This of
course would require implementation of a selection object.

Chris
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