Re: Nautilus shadows



On Wed, 2002-02-13 at 08:43, Martin Waitz wrote:
> hi :)
> 
> On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 10:40:58PM -0500, Sean Middleditch wrote:
> > I know there are some font issues that are brought up a lot, but one of
> > the issues I see is the rendering of the font... the text really should
> > be rendered with a *very* slight drop shadow or something.
> this would be a very good extension to libzvt, too
> eterm already does that and it really improves the font contrast
> when using transparent backgrounds
> 
> another idea would be to draw outlines instead of drop shadows
> (dark outline with light font colors and vice versa)

Yes, that would be even better, readability wise.  But the drop shadows
have a cooler eye candy effect.  ~,^

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