On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 01:01:03PM +0200, Sven Neumann wrote: > Hi, > > lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Olivier) writes: > > > But black is a useful start, it can always be improved to a darkened > > image any later time. > > Well, a darkened image would need a completely different approach. true > I doubt that using black is a useful start not start as in code, but start as in functionality we're talking about a feature request since 2002: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=93360 some people indeed prefer darkened, but as long as nobody is working on that, would black be useful instead of darkened? I do think so. It is currently not about the choice between darkened and black, but between nothing and black (unless somebody steps up to implement 'darkened'). > and I am not sure if we > should accept that change given that it goes into the wrong direction > implementation-wise. well, please let me know, because if it's not going to be included I better stop... regards, Olivier