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). > > > - Offset the shadow text by another pixel > > E.g. > > > > X X > > X X > > XX . > > X .X . > > X .X > > . . > > . . > > > > Instead of > > > > X X > > X X . > > XX . > > X .X > > X . X > > . . > > Hmm, I though this will be even more ugly, but I am not sure now. > I patched the source (currently lines 1009-1010 in Flocale.c) and > offset 2 looks good with bold or Xft fonts, but not with others. > > So, probably we may add a third argument to shadow: > > shadow=size[,directions[,offset]] >
shadow=size [offset] directions seems more logic for me. > I also want to see whether shadow=1,br+b is ugly or not. Something like: > > X X > .X X.. > .XX.. > X..X > X.. .X > .. .. > So ? 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]
