Feature request: text shadows?

2002-04-02 Thread ciprian
How about adding shadows for the text on toolbar, windows bars and menus? Nothing fancy, just the same text with different color under the normal one, and displaced by 1px VH. Maybe some resources describing the color of the shadow and maybe the displacement distance in the menu files? If someone

Re: Feature request: text shadows?

2002-04-02 Thread Derek Cunningham
The forecast: a long thread arguing for and against freeping creaturism. Anyway... I just wanted to voice my opinion in favour of said addition... it would definately add some character additional to BB! DC On Tue, Apr02,02 18:29, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How about adding shadows for the text

Re: Feature request: text shadows?

2002-04-02 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 02-Apr-2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How about adding shadows for the text on toolbar, windows bars and menus? Nothing fancy, just the same text with different color under the normal one, and displaced by 1px VH. Maybe some resources describing the color of the shadow and maybe the

Re: Feature request: text shadows?

2002-04-02 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 02-Apr-2002 Marius Nita wrote: This should at least be used for disabled menu items. Right now, disabled items look anything but disabled. Also, you may consider having one disabled item that says (empty) or something similar in empty menus. WHY?? An empty menu is well, empty. If I put

Re: Feature request: text shadows?

2002-04-02 Thread Derek Cunningham
On Tue, Apr02,02 09:24, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: This is not KDE or Windows. We do not have to do everything just like they do. And we're also not catering to morons! :) DC -- Derek Cunningham [EMAIL PROTECTED] Human beings act intelligently only after they have exhausted the

Re: Feature request: text shadows?

2002-04-02 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 02-Apr-2002 Derek Cunningham wrote: On Tue, Apr02,02 09:24, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: This is not KDE or Windows. We do not have to do everything just like they do. And we're also not catering to morons! :) I was attempting to not be insulting (-; Seriously, from the user

Re: Feature request: text shadows?

2002-04-02 Thread Derek Cunningham
On Tue, Apr02,02 09:54, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: And we're also not catering to morons! :) I was attempting to not be insulting (-; *shrug* life's too short to walk on shells. Seriously, from the user perspective, is having an empty menu actually be empty that shocking? Must we

Re: Feature request: text shadows?

2002-04-02 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
IMHO, the only thing that would make sense, would be to drop the menu item entirely, unless it get something in it. Besides, the default menu doesn't have any empty menus... and most people have generated their own menus manually, so why would one leave a menu empty? think icons/window

Re: Feature request: text shadows?

2002-04-02 Thread Derek Cunningham
On Tue, Apr02,02 10:24, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: IMHO, the only thing that would make sense, would be to drop the menu item entirely, unless it get something in it. Besides, the default menu doesn't have any empty menus... and most people have generated their own menus manually, so

Re: Feature request: text shadows?

2002-04-02 Thread Marius Nita
Ah, why do I even bother? I talked to nyz about the empty thing a while back and he liked the idea; he asked me to file a feature request for it, so he could put it in moving_target. Then again, nyz is not your ordinary idiot. On Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 09:24:18AM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:

Re: Feature request: text shadows?

2002-04-02 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 02-Apr-2002 Marius Nita wrote: Ah, why do I even bother? All I was asking for is a rationale for why you felt they should be added. I am not opposed to the idea, I just want to know why adding them is better than what we have. It appears silly to me right now. Show me the other