Re: [Usability] Text legibility on the desktop; the Cartesian file browser

["Chris Chabot" <chabotc reviewboard com>]

> >  Fortunately, it's even easier to do that these days, with a little bit
> >  of care.  Compare and contrast:
> >  http://home.pacific.net.au/~peterhardy/win-desktop.png
> >  http://home.pacific.net.au/~peterhardy/linux-desktop.png

Actualy, if you do the same in XP, it works a little bit different then the
old windows way of doing things. Now when you have high color enabled, it
renders & blends the text with the background, like nautilus does.

However, since they prolly had this problem to, they put a 'shadow' under
the text. Ie, the label is first drawn in black, and then @
positiion -1x -1y in white. (giving a subtle shadow effect). Using black &
white makes sure that the contrast is always good, on bright and dark
backgrounds.