Icon Text Shadow (Down with icon backgrounds!)

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On Sunday 27 January 2008, Sven Burmeister 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

there's a blur implementation in workspace/libs/plasma/effects/

> 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. 

it was also slow like snails and rather overly configurable leading to a 
really nasty API to use it.

> IMHO normal shadows are not enough compared to what the 
> background or sourrounding shadows achieve.

yep. i've already rejected patches for this in the past, in fact.

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Aaron J. Seigo
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