From kde-devel  Sat Jan 25 15:31:49 2003
From: Uno Engborg <uno () webworks ! se>
Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2003 15:31:49 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Re: Ui enhancements
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-devel&m=104350837818505

On Friday 24 January 2003 10.53, Laur Ivan wrote:
> Hi Luke,
>
> Ive tried drop shadow (an offset for the halo) but I normally keep small
> fonts with the desktop icons and sometimes (especially with aa fonts)
> looks a bit unreadable. also, Troels has a good point with having
> appropriate colors in the text and background. I think is a no-no for
> 8-12 px text.
>
> However, i'm sure the offset of the shadow can be arranged for a drop
> shadow via a tab in desktop's config panel containig an offset/angle or
> something :).
>
> I'll check out what's the best way to add the customisation to the
> desktop config panel. I'm thinking on adding a button for "advanced" and
> popping up a dialog. An alternative would be to extend the "Appearance"
> tab in the desktop config.
>


Drop down shadows and halos looks very slick and I'm sure this would be great 
if you have some background image where the color happen to be the same as 
the text color in some places, at least provided you have your fonts are 
large enough.  But I don't think it increases readability in other cases. 

So I think the better solution would be to just let users select backgrounds 
where they can read the text, or we would, like you suggest, have to make 
this configurable. And there already are a too many things to configure in 
KDE 

We just have had a very heated discussion on the kde-usability list on adding 
more configurability to KDE and most people there would say no to add any 
single more thing to configure almost regardless how useful or slick  it 
would be, as it would add complexity to an already  complex system. In this 
case the readability problem can be solved just by using another background.


Regards
Uno Engborg





 
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