On Friday, October 22, 2010 21:57:11 todd rme wrote: > Wow, that looks really good! A couple of things: > > I think the affect is a bit overdone, especially in the oxygen theme. > You don't want it to jump out too much, but you also don't want it to > take too much effort for someone to pick it out from the background, > either. I personally have trouble picking out the new clock in oxygen > without some focus, while in all other pictures (new and old) it jumps > out at me so I can read it at a glance. > > Can you post some screenshots of how it looks when it isn't in a panel?
I'll do that after some more tweaking, others have come up with nice ideas as well, I think we're on to something. > Are you sure embossed is the right effect? I personally think a > sunken look would be better, especially with the panel looking like it > is convex. If it isn't too much trouble, screenshots of both for > comparison might be good. It's very subtle, and it's not quite clear wether it's emboss or shadow, at least without blurring the backdrop. > Is there any way to make it so themes can specify whether it embossed, > sunken, or flush? Some themes, like ASCII or ghost, would probably > look better without the effect. Hm, yes probably. > Maybe they can specify the colors for > emboss/sinking as well. You might even be able to make it > configurable on a per-widget basis, but I am not sure you want another > config option. I'm pretty sure actually: no way. :-) (Meaning, it has to be good enough for all themes, which is hopefully achievable.) Anyway, I'll play some more with it, suggestions are of course still welcome. (And I hope they don't exceed my graphics coding skills.) -- sebas http://www.kde.org | http://vizZzion.org | GPG Key ID: 9119 0EF9 _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel