Re: [Usability] My take on Nautilus must-fix proposal

[George <jirka 5z com>]

On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 04:53:22PM -0400, Liam Quin wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 01:18:07PM -0700, Maciej Stachowiak wrote:
> > Stippled shapes look butt ugly compared to alpha blending.
> 
> Well, not all of us think your butt is ugly... but...
> yes, alpha blending is better.  Don't hold your breath for
> the Render extension support, though.

I for one would agree with maciej that his butt is ugly on this one.
 
> http://www.holoweb.net/~liam/gnome/shadow.png
> shows a sample stippled shadow falling on a gnome-terminal.
> They are only OK when the shadow is fairly small.

This is pretty nice.  It think this would work quite nicely.  May not be
as good as alpha blending where you could get all fancy, but it's nice clean
and gets the point across.

George

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