Icon Text Shadow (Down with icon backgrounds!)

[Christopher Blauvelt]

2008/1/28 Aaron J. Seigo <aseigo at kde.org>:

> > > 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 surrounds 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.


And the sad part is that out of 4 available algorithms, two were never
implemented and simply called the third function so all the configurability
was for nothing.  My plan would be to simply offer the two that were
actually implemented and decide which one based on the abilities of the
machine.  Is there some kind of performance metric that can be done on kde
that can then be used to configure recommended application behaviour?


>
>
> > 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.


Well fine then.

If the halo effect is implemented in a sane way would you accept that?

Chris
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