[sugar] icon assistance/validation

[Bert Freudenberg]

On Mar 18, 2008, at 19:20 , Eben Eliason wrote:

> Again, this is usually the fault of the stroke translucency,
> since the stroke overlaps the fill by half its width, causing a
> layered effect.  Our only potential uses for this are (opaque stroke,
> translucent fill) and (translucent stroke, transparent fill).  That
> is, at no time will we ever use a translucent stroke in conjunction
> with any fill at all, which is where you run into odd looking results.


Unless some icon designer used the (now translucent) fill color for a  
stroke. Or let strokes overlap, which will look odd as well.

That, and the fact that alpha-blending will take more cycles than  
using solid colors, is that not enough reason to ditch that opacity  
idea? If you insist on it, icon designers will have to make sure their  
strokes won't ever overlap, which can of course be achieved by boolean  
geometry, but this is much harder to do correct than what is required  
now.

- Bert -