GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 540129
[textoverlay] support for more text styling options
Last modified: 2011-10-03 13:09:33 UTC
The following nice features are currently missing: 1) Drawing a nice, antialiased and shaded outline with custom thickness and possibly color 2) Drawing an alpha-blended shaded background. 3) Specifying a text color Out of these, I think 2) is the most important because a nice outline improves readability of subtitles very much and antialiasing makes them look less ugly. Specifying a text color is probably not all that important, since most people are fine with white.
3) is fixed now (color property and pango markup), 2) should be fixed too (shaded-background property) and 1) is partially fixed, it's at least antialiased. Do you still need to be able to specify the thickness and color of the outline?
Closing this bug report as no further information has been provided. Please feel free to reopen this bug if you can provide the information asked for. Thanks!