Re: Icon label visibility diff...

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Sun, 2006-12-03 at 13:23 -0800, Gene Ragan wrote:
> On Dec 3, 2006, at 1:09 PM, Hans Petter Jansson wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, 2006-12-03 at 00:30 -0800, Gene Z. Ragan wrote:
> >
> >> less.png shows is a nice way to visually clean up the clutter.  If  
> >> the
> >> background in white or a solid color, the label selection frame is  
> >> done
> >> using that color with an opacity value.  If the background is a  
> >> bitmap,
> >> nothing is done.  In the bitmap case, it would probably be  
> >> possible to
> >> sample the background image at the location, but it seemed like a  
> >> lot of
> >> work.
> >>
> >> What do you thing?  Please take a look at the attacked diff.  It has
> >> been a while since I have coded to the nautilus guidelines and I have
> >> made some obvious mistakes.
> >
> > It's a good idea, but the result looks like a rendering bug :)
> >
> > Maybe it'll look better if you make the selection frames completely
> > opaque? The faint text is pretty much unreadable anyway.

Yeah, i think it will have to be some form of feathered gradient. The
very sharp rectangular corners where some text/icon is partially
overlapped looks very strange.

Seems like a fun thing to do with cairo. Also, if you want to do that
you should probably take a look at doing
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=380060 at the same time, since
they are quite related.

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