digiclock looks

[Shantanu Tushar Jha]

On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 5:12 AM, Sebastian Kügler <sebas at kde.org> wrote:

> On Friday, October 22, 2010 23:34:16 todd rme wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 5:26 PM, Sebastian Kügler <sebas at kde.org> wrote:
> > > On Friday, October 22, 2010 22:35:16 Sebastian Kügler wrote:
> > >> > Is there any way to make it so themes can specify whether it
> embossed,
> > >> > sunken, or flush?  Some themes, like ASCII or ghost, would probably
> > >> > look better without the effect.
> > >>
> > >> Hm, yes probably.
> > >
> > > And with "yes probably", I mean that some themes might look better
> > > without it, but I'd rather have the default case done well and it look
> > > slightly alien on flat themes, than having it too flat in the default
> > > just so it looks good in ASCII -- optimize for the current case (in our
> > > case, the default). I think the ASCII theme, and other very flat ones
> > > are kind of corner cases.
> > >
> > > Doesn't mean it should be overdone, or that we can just ignore those
> > > themes, just that getting it better in the default theme is paramount.
> >
> > I agree completely, that's why I suggested themes be able to specify
> > whether they want it or not (and whether it is embossed or recessed).
> > That way you can focus your attention on getting it working well for
> > the default themes, and in the rare cases where it makes things worse
> > the responsibility is on the theme developer to disable it.  For
> > legacy themes I agree the default should be to have it.  Just looking
> > through the themes I only see a handful that I think this might look
> > worse on.
>
> Interestingly, the way the human brain interprets it on or the other way.
> "Normal" people will see a dark backdrop as a shadow, while seeing a light
> backdrop as embossed. Schizophrenic people apparently do not make this
> translation. Shadows are a common equivalent in nature for this, they're
> dark.
> Text with light backdrop will appear embossed or recessed depending on how
> the
> shadows of surrounding objects look like -- it's seen in context.
>
> Here's an interesting article on how the human brain interprets convex and
> concave shapes when viewed on 2d surfaces:
> http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/04/schizoillusion/
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Hi,
    Doesn't look that good on mine http://imagebin.ca/view/y8OxF3.html . The
readability varies from wallpaper to wallpaper, and it looks a bit odd when
date is on.

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Shantanu Tushar    (UTC +0530)
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