On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 04:40:20PM +0200, Olivier Chapuis wrote: > On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 12:07:20PM +0200, Dominik Vogt wrote: > > On Sat, May 11, 2002 at 06:38:25PM +0200, Olivier Chapuis wrote: > > > On Fri, May 10, 2002 at 12:33:47PM +0200, Dominik Vogt wrote: > > > > But why make a special case if there is a mini icon? If we need > > > > a tint colour, shouldn't it be applicable to any forground, not > > > > just icons? I see no reason why, for example, text shouldn't > > > > benefit from tinting. > > > > > > > > > > I do not think that tint should be applied to fg, *Gradient and > > > even the transparent part of the background of a pixmap (i.e., bg). > > > At the present time Tint tints the transparent part of the background > > > the cs pixmap for *Pixmap colorset (as TintMask does not) and now > > > I think this is not a good idea. > > > > > The reason is that I do not see the interset to tint a colour, > > > the user can do that by just changing the color in the Colorset > > > cmd. > > > > But the user does not know the algorithm in fvwm. Consider this: > > You have a button button with text and an icon in FvwmButtons. It > > shall visually indicate if the internet connection is up. One > > might want to do this by tinting the whole button. You could > > simply say > > > > Colorset 123 tint blue > > > > Very comfortable to use and very flexible. We might want to > > distinguish between a foreground and background tint. > > > > So we should have fgTint, bgTint (for the bg and the gradients), > PixmapTint (for the non transparent part of the pixmap) and > IconTint for the contextual (mini-)icon. > Pixmaptint and IconTint are really natural with Xrender
Hm, why not make a whole 'tint colour set': Colorset 123 fg blue, bg red, sh orange, hi green Colorset 234 tintcolorset 123 That's the most flexible solution and it does not even have to extend colour sets. Bye Dominik ^_^ ^_^ -- Dominik Vogt, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] LifeBits Aktiengesellschaft, Albrechtstr. 9, D-72072 Tuebingen fon: ++49 (0) 7071/7965-0, fax: ++49 (0) 7071/7965-20 -- Visit the official FVWM web page at <URL:http://www.fvwm.org/>. To unsubscribe from the list, send "unsubscribe fvwm-workers" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To report problems, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
