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List:       kde-panel-devel
Subject:    Re: air backgrounds -> a little too translucent?
From:       Nuno Pinheiro <nuno () oxygen-icons ! org>
Date:       2009-06-26 11:43:58
Message-ID: 200906261243.58601.nuno () oxygen-icons ! org
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A Friday 26 June 2009 12:21:31, Marco Martin escreveu:
> On Friday 26 June 2009, Nuno Pinheiro wrote:
> > A Friday 26 June 2009 01:05:16, Aaron J. Seigo escreveu:
> > > hi all ...
> > >
> > > is it just me or are the widget, dialog and panel backgrounds in Air
> > > just a little too translucent, making it hard to read text and see fine
> > > details?
> > >
> > > should it be made slightly more opaque?
> >
> > yeah a bit, its a trade off, general public see transparent as cool, but
> > transparency comes with problems, low contrast being one of them, I guess
> > we can make it less transparent, do remember the trade here less cool
> > more usable...
> >
> > I know its a no brainier :)
> >
> > if every one agrees we can make it more opaque by 25%???
>
> everybody please checkout the last revision (also backported)
> it's about that percentage more opaque, i think it's quite easy to read
> both on black and white backgrounds.
> on really noisy wallpapers is still a bit crappy, but the only way to avoid
> that would be to have a 95%-100% opacity.. and would be another theme :)
> aanyways, checks this and there is always time to correct it

In a word, you fu...ing rock :)

Now choose the word you like best :) 

> > > blurring would probably help a lot, but that isn't supported by all
> > > compositing setups and we simply can't (yet) do it properly on a
> > > QGrahpicsScene.
>
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