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 -- 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]
