Icon Text Shadow (Down with icon backgrounds!)

[Christopher Blauvelt]

On Jan 27, 2008 3:33 AM, Sven Burmeister <sven.burmeister at gmx.net> wrote:

> On Sonntag, 27. Januar 2008, Marco Martin wrote:
> > > Above is a screenshot of panel text with a shadow so text can be seen
> on
> > > white desktop backgrounds.  My biggest problems with backgrounds on
> icons
> > > is that they aren't the same size.  I think the best effect would be
> to
> > > show the background on hover events and when selected.  When that does
> > > happen, they still should be the same size for the same size icon.
> > >  Thoughts?
> >
> > i think that for a shadow that looks ok a fast blurring function is
> > needed (and it's totally black magic for me :P) and then at least on
> > mousehover the background is still needed to correlate the icon with
> > text and action icon
>

Agreed


>
>
> In KDE3 there was a shadow around every letter which is a lot clearer than
> the
> normal shadow because it sourrounds the letter everywhere and not just one
> or
> two sides. IMHO normal shadows are not enough compared to what the
> background
> or sourrounding shadows achieve.
>
> Sven
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I remember and I've been looking into doing this by porting the functions to
kdesktop.
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