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Bug #647: Some menu button graphics have edge artefacts in Leopard

Kind bug
Product Synergy
When Created , updated
Status open
Reporter Peter Payne
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Description

Created an attachment (id=150) pictures of the display issue

Hi, I've started using your Alpha today. I noticed that there is a bit of a display problem in the right edges of the buttons. It may be related to me running LeoColorBar.app to make the header look good (normal, instead of transparent). You might check this out, although if the new OS update offers optional title bar settings to make it look as it did before, you might not need to do anything.

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  1. Greg Hurrell

    I don't know whether the issue is exacerbated by LeoColorBar or not. Can you tell me the names of the buttons sets in those screenshots? It would be interested to compare how they looked on a non-modified menu bar.

    In any case, there's not really anything that Synergy can do about these edge glitches. It's really something that the individual button set authors would have to look at, tweaking their graphics so that they look best on Leopard.

  2. Peter Payne

    Hi, looksl ike the buttons were Divide and hmm, I can't find it now but it's there. Brushed also looks kind of bad, with white artifacts, but others, like Rings, look fine. I'd guess it's trying to anti-alias with the color in the background? I agree it is a small thing.

  3. Greg Hurrell

    I don't think anti-aliasing is actually involved at all, or at least I doubt it.

    Basically all of the button sets use button graphics with transparent backgrounds. How well a button set blends into a particular background depends on many things: the colors the designer chose, the application they used, what kind of aliasing/blending they use inside the image itself (ie. not aliasing done by the system at draw-time).

    So I really think it's just that most of the button sets were made before Leopard came out and were tested with Jaguar, Panther and then Tiger. Now that Leopard is out we'll start seeing more button sets that look good on Leopard (actually, I've got a few that have been submitted and will be published with the final 3.5 release).

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