Subject: Re: Pixel spacing in 2 and 3 columns toolbar button
From: Henrik Berg (henrik@lansen.se)
Date: Sat May 06 2000 - 05:23:42 CDT
> The toolbar buttons for two and three columns have only a single pixel
> between their "line" representation. Running 1600x1200 and higher, I
> first believed that it was a bug I've found since I didn't see that
> spacing. Later I found out that it indeed was a space between them, it's
> just really really hard to see at these resolutions. It looked equally
> confusing in MSWord (that also have a one pel spacing), but I don't see
> why we should we have to be "bug"-compatible. :-)
>
> I suggest that either the x-spacing changes to two pixels for all
> resolutions, or that we have two xpm's for this. One for <=1024 and one
> for greater screen resolution.
>
> For now, I've changed my local xpms to have two pixel spacing, and it
> looks OK in 1600.
I have found that button images are nice, but I don't think anyone have put 100% work into making it look GREAT. If it looks better/good for you please commit/patch it. Easy to undo if it looks ugly on other platforms. I have done some small tweeking myself and nobody have complained.
--hb
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