[GRASS-dev] Upon the mini color bars in r.colors' manual

Nikos Alexandris nik at nikosalexandris.net
Wed Jun 26 02:19:25 PDT 2013


Nikos wrote:

> > I really like the mini color bars presented for each color table in the
> > manual of the "r.colors" module (sourced from
> > <grass_trunk/dist.x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/docs/html>).

Hamish wrote:
 
> ( http://grass.osgeo.org/grass70/manuals/r.colors.html )
 
> > I'd like to propose, though, to remove the thick black borderline or, at
> > least, make it less black and thinner.  All in all, make it less
> > "dominant".

> yeah, that's a side product of using the Cairo driver. If you look at
> the versions in devbr6 they aren't like that:
> https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/browser/grass/branches/develbranch_6/raster/r.c
> olors/thumbnails (d.colortable called using the PNG driver there)

Indeed, they look smoother.


> see also
>  https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/ticket/2009#comment:5
>  http://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Color_tables
>  http://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Talk:Color_tables

> and grey.log, grey.eq and random thumbnails still need some work.

Thank you, Nikos


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