[806] in Athena User Interface
Re: panel icons
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Sat Jun 23 11:11:10 2001
Message-Id: <200106231510.LAA00576@egyptian-gods.MIT.EDU>
To: "Christopher D. Beland" <beland@MIT.EDU>
cc: Tim Blackburn <timblack@MIT.EDU>, aui@MIT.EDU,
John Kramer <jkramer@MIT.EDU>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 22 Jun 2001 21:02:42 EDT."
<200106230102.VAA25370@whack-a-mole.mit.edu>
Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2001 11:10:48 -0400
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
I don't appear to have gotten the original message beland is replying
to, so I can't look at the unedited icons from PSB.
> For some reason, they came through at this end with a white
> background
You checked this with xmag or something, rather than just eyeballing
it? The default panel background we have is pretty darn close to
white (as close as d7 is to ff), although it still manges to look
grayish in a big strip.
> I did some creative Gimping to make the background transparent
> again.
I note that the text is unreadable if you bring up the edited images
with a dark background. This is a fundamental problem with having
anti-aliased text in the icons. We might be better off just making
the icons have the d7d7d7 background so that the text remains readable
(even if the icons look bad) in the face of panel color changes.
That's what we're doing with the existing icons.
