Tag Archive for 'GNOME'

Cleaner Nautilus desktop icon captions

Published
by
spacehunt
on Sat, 19 Nov 2005
in English
. 1 Comment

Currently, Nautilus is hardcoded to draw the desktop icon’s captions in white with a black background. This works well for Latin scripts, but for CJK scripts where each character is pretty complex, the captions quickly become a jumble of black and white pixels.

Hence the following patch against Nautilus 2.12. It adds a GConf key /apps/nautilus/preferences/desktop_label_shadow, which when set to False prevents the shadows from being drawn. A nice side benefit is that Nautilus then checks the background colour, and draws captions in black if the background is light. Nice.

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Non-BMP support

Published
by
spacehunt
on Sun, 29 Jun 2003
in English
. 2 Comments

I have been working on non-BMP characters support for Pango for a while:

gucharmap_non_bmp

Notice the screenshot shows a screenful of characters with 5-digit Unicode canonical values. Of course, apart from using a non-BMP-capable Pango, a font that actually has some non-BMP glyphs is also needed.

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