On Tuesday 11 December 2012 12:13:11 you wrote: > A Terça, 11 de Dezembro de 2012 10:06:36 você escreveu: > > Dear all, > > > > I noticed how the new air theme (which is just beautiful, btw) makes the > > > > mono icons in systray quite low-constrast; this is especially apparent > > with > > compositing turned off. > > they seam about the same here ...
I am not sure, it looks like the panel is lighter than it used to be > agrea to some extent that we should get rid of the iner gradient in the > icons. the border i sthere for contrast issue againts random > backgrounds....Note fonts suck in that way and we have to make the (imo) > overdone blured background. Yes, I understand the issue with random backgrounds, but I am referring to the non-composited case, where no transparency is taken into account. At least this case, and the composited case with the default wallpaper should be nicely contrasted. > > - hinting: fonts provide hinting informations for pixel-snapping on-screen > > rendering at small sizes (which are typically the ones used in systray). > > This does not make the icon pixel perfect, but possibly quite close to it. > > Manually hinting a font is quite painful, but after all we do not have too > > many icons to take care of… > > again do you know any font designer willing to do them? > and what is the adgantage work wise in relation to svg's? you can do the > same in svg's creting multiple svg's for multiple rendering sizes.... btw, why are we not using pngs in desktoptheme icons? > > - subpixel antialiasing: subpixel antialiasing (for those who like it) > > would possibly make curves smoother > > so mono But with color pixels on the side right.... It's a matter of taste; besides, if you see color fringing you should consider tweaking your subpixel filter (check out infinality) > > - coloring: icons can be colored in such a way to optimize contrast, this > > makes borders around shapes not necessary and help saving precious pixels > > but ofcourse the problem is that we dont have controll over the background > color since that is tranparent.... That is why we should provide a way to set coloring of icons; after all if one chooses the same color for background and foreground, then his desktop is broken, but it is a user fault; otoh if the user cannot choose the foreground color… then it is not that clear. > Since it would just duplicate work, with no visible gain imo (with QT5 > around the corner coloring an element in scenegraph is rader trivial, > shaders for the win)... That's excellent news! > On the making the try icons mono yeah expect that soon... \me drools _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel
