Some blurriness in gnome desktop

[Bastien Nocera]

On Mon, 2009-10-26 at 13:47 +0100, Martin Sourada wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I've been pondering this for a while, but there has been an increasing
> amount of blurriness in desktop UI elements that haven't been (most
> likely) designed by or even consulted with the gnome-art team (or fedora
> design team). Some examples include (the top part of each picture is
> screenshot, the bottom part is analogue done in inkscape to look crisp;
> ignore the coloring, it's not important in these images):
>       * sound preferences [1]
>       * volume control with compositing [2]
>       * new tooltips [3]
> 
> It does not seem that the blurriness is intentional, so I though I'd
> point it out. The problem is that if you're drawing fills you need to
> start at integer x,y values for position; when drawing borders, they
> need to be shifted by exactly half of their width (i.e. 0.5 px for 1px
> wide borders) to look crisp. We are not working with very high DPI
> display devices so this is important.
> 
> I think fixing these would nicely fit with your "polishes for F12"
> project.

The sound volume one has an upstream bug:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=567249

Patch would be most welcome

Cheers

> References:
> [1] http://mso.fedorapeople.org/gnome-blurry/sound-preferences.png
> [2] http://mso.fedorapeople.org/gnome-blurry/sound-volume.png
> [3] http://mso.fedorapeople.org/gnome-blurry/tooltips.png
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