On Sun, May 26, 2002 at 10:01:27PM +0200, Dominik Vogt wrote: > On Sun, May 26, 2002 at 05:26:40PM +0000, Mikhael Goikhman wrote: > > On 26 May 2002 17:18:57 +0200, Dominik Vogt wrote: > > > > > > I wonder if it's possible to improve the readability of shadow > > > text a bit. With my default palette (pale blue window titles, > > > orange title on the focused window, black text), it's quite > > > difficult to read the title. Two ideas to improve the > > > situation: > > > > > > - Better contrast between shadow and text colours. > > > Probably won't help much. > > > > Black text is not very good for shadowing, but this depends on font. > > Try white text with your palettes. It looks very well. > > > > Ideally shadow should enable more text colors to be readable on any bg. > > I got very good results without changing the default fgsh calculations > > with both black text and white text in your theme. Try: > > > > Style * Font "shadowsize=3:xft:Luxi Sherif:Bold:size=13" > > > > Shadow size 2 is good too (and shadow size 1 with white). > > Hm, I see no big difference with lucidasanstypewriter-12. I took > a closer look: what really irritates me is that the shadows fill > the inside of some letters, like O: > > XXX > X X > X ..X > X. X. > X. X. > XXX . > . . > ... > I think it might look better if the shadow is limited to the area > not covered by the regular text: > > XXX > X X > X X > X X > X X > XXX > . . > ... >
Yes this will be good, but ... > This could be an option. > I do not see how to implement this in a simple way. It seems to me that such rendering should be handled at an other level than the fvwm library level. Olivier -- 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]
