On Friday, October 22, 2010 23:34:16 todd rme wrote: > On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 5:26 PM, Sebastian Kügler <se...@kde.org> wrote: > > On Friday, October 22, 2010 22:35:16 Sebastian Kügler wrote: > >> > 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. > > > > And with "yes probably", I mean that some themes might look better > > without it, but I'd rather have the default case done well and it look > > slightly alien on flat themes, than having it too flat in the default > > just so it looks good in ASCII -- optimize for the current case (in our > > case, the default). I think the ASCII theme, and other very flat ones > > are kind of corner cases. > > > > Doesn't mean it should be overdone, or that we can just ignore those > > themes, just that getting it better in the default theme is paramount. > > I agree completely, that's why I suggested themes be able to specify > whether they want it or not (and whether it is embossed or recessed). > That way you can focus your attention on getting it working well for > the default themes, and in the rare cases where it makes things worse > the responsibility is on the theme developer to disable it. For > legacy themes I agree the default should be to have it. Just looking > through the themes I only see a handful that I think this might look > worse on.
Interestingly, the way the human brain interprets it on or the other way. "Normal" people will see a dark backdrop as a shadow, while seeing a light backdrop as embossed. Schizophrenic people apparently do not make this translation. Shadows are a common equivalent in nature for this, they're dark. Text with light backdrop will appear embossed or recessed depending on how the shadows of surrounding objects look like -- it's seen in context. Here's an interesting article on how the human brain interprets convex and concave shapes when viewed on 2d surfaces: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/04/schizoillusion/ -- 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
