Re: [PATCH] Don't show frames around images with an alpha plane

[Gilles Dartiguelongue <gilles dartiguelongue esiee org>]

Le 16 sept. 2009 à 15:11, Alexander Larsson a écrit :

> On Wed, 2009-09-16 at 15:02 +0200, Mark wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 2:48 PM, Alexander Larsson  
> > <alexl redhat com> wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2009-09-16 at 14:18 +0200, Mark wrote:
> > >
> > > Another alternative would be to frame the transparent icons after
> > > overlaying them on some background, but that would loose some of the
> > > information availible about the file (that its transparent), so this
> > > isn't really a great idea either.
> >
> > Oke, if you say so. I still don't agree on it but i guess my voice is
> > worth nothing since i'm not a nautilus dev.
> > But i hope for you and Jaap that people don't get confused by this
> > patch. But i bet that if someone out there is using nautilus 2.28
> > (assuming it lands in there) when it's released and that someone has
> > both jpeg and png files in the same folder with a few that have
> > transparency you will start seeing bug reports about that.
>
> I'm pretty sure some people will be confused by it, but i'm also sure
> that some people would be confused if we took the transparent image  
> and
> made it non-transparent. There is not always a perfect solution for
> everyone.
>
> > Just look at this image to see what they might report:
> > http://img2.imagedash.com/2WLn.png i certainly would report that if i
> > didn't know about this patch.
>
> I don't think that looks to bad really.
> This: http://img2.imagedash.com/Pk2o.png looks far weirder.


Did anybody look at this historical bug report I gave ? Nautilus has a  
history of changing this feature every once in a while and it disturbs  
users either way.

What about transparent images, well I do have transparent images that  
have content on the border and not having frames on it is just as bad  
as having frames on images where there is no content on the border.  
Can we please just stop switching this behavior on and off or make it  
definitively togglable in gconf or something like this ?

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Gilles Dartiguelongue
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