[Bug 643836] Re: Nautilus Theme: desktop icon text hard to read on white backgrounds

2010-12-07 Thread Yao Ziyuan
Vish: I know that's the way Windows and KDE draw desktop icon text and I'm glad GNOME is going to do that too. But in my impression, GNOME changes very slowly; so in the meanwhile, major distros like Ubuntu probably should spearhead the patch (or consider the gtkrc-2.0 way). -- You received this

[Bug 643836] Re: Nautilus Theme: desktop icon text hard to read on white backgrounds

2010-12-07 Thread Yao Ziyuan
Julien Olivier: The 50% translucency in my gtkrc-2.0 code will always makes the original region whiter. If the region was white, it will remain white; if the region was black, it will be whitened. Considering this, you should only set the text color to black, not white. Some of the screenshots on

[Bug 643836] Re: Nautilus Theme: desktop icon text hard to read on white backgrounds

2010-12-07 Thread Julien Olivier
Well Paul, the reason I asked this question is because I tried changing the text color to white, and the contrast is way too low. Actually, the background doesn't look to me like a 50% grey but like a 50% white. I also tried to set the alpha to 255, and the background is now solid white. -- You r

[Bug 643836] Re: Nautilus Theme: desktop icon text hard to read on white backgrounds

2010-12-07 Thread Paul Sladen
Julien: I suspect that white on 50% grey would have the same contrast as black on 50% grey. I'd encourage you to try it and provide feedback! -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/643836 Titl

[Bug 643836] Re: Nautilus Theme: desktop icon text hard to read on white backgrounds

2010-12-07 Thread Julien Olivier
It's probably off-topic, but is there a way to have white text on a semi-transparent black background instead of the contrary? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/643836 Title: Nautilus Th

[Bug 643836] Re: Nautilus Theme: desktop icon text hard to read on white backgrounds

2010-12-07 Thread Paul Sladen
Ziyaun: I think we'd want to do this in the system-wide theme files, rather than individually installing a theme override in each user's home directory. Thank you for figuring out a possible solution. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscri

[Bug 643836] Re: Nautilus Theme: desktop icon text hard to read on white backgrounds

2010-12-07 Thread Paul Sladen
** Summary changed: - desktop icon text hard to read on white backgrounds + Nautilus Theme: desktop icon text hard to read on white backgrounds -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/643836 Ti