Closed WhippetsAintDogs closed 5 years ago
Schneegans
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8 years ago Hi Marc-Antoine!
Can you give an example of what you are trying to achieve? Since the extracted color is always quite bright and saturated (this line guarantees a brightness value of one; saturation is always greater than 0.65), dark backgrounds will always work.
BTW, my website uses pretty much the same code for Color Splash.
WhippetsAintDogs
commented
8 years ago 
For the text in the center, I just don't wan't to use colorize="true" since it overlaps the ring. If the text could understand on what background color it is printed and colorize itself in a white-grey-black color range adaptatively in order to get a good contrast between the two, it'll be awesome.
Schneegans
commented
8 years ago This seems quite difficult because the background you are referring to is not part of Gnome-Pie. What should happen if you open a Pie in front of some high contrast image, such as a checker board? Should every letter adapt its color on its own? What should happen if you open a Pie in front of something which moves, such as a video?
Maybe it would be a better solution to support outlines and drop shadows for text?
BTW, you can make screenshots of gnome-pie with gnome-screenshot --delay 5 :-)
I know that we can use the colorize="true" option in themes in order to get the color of the pointed icon and apply it to a given text. But, it would be useful to extract the background color instead in order to get a good contrast between the background and the text. (like a contrast_color="true", to get an adaptative color in the range of white-gray-black.) You already have a similar implementation with your Color Splash! project, so I'm just throwing up the idea :) .
Marc-Antoine