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The status indicator is a choice, and it is legible against a spent globe - #38

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ADDED: The status indicator over the mana globe can be turned off, under Settings > General > Appearance. It is on by default, and turning it off changes nothing else about a price check.
CHANGED: The outline around the indicator's text is light grey instead of black, so it stays readable when the mana globe is dark — spent, or fully reserved.

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ADDED: A Show the status indicator setting under General > Appearance, on by default; with it off the idle overlay is never mapped at all.
CHANGED: The halo around the marker's text is light grey rather than black.

  • The globe behind it is dark whenever the mana is spent or fully reserved, which is exactly where a black outline disappeared.

CHANGED: The halo's per-stamp alpha is solved back through the compositing rather than used directly.

  • The eight stamps blend over one another instead of adding, so a visible halo pixel lands at 1-(1-s)^n for the n of three a straight glyph edge gets. Dividing by eight assumes additive blending and a coverage no visible halo pixel has.

CHANGED: The update line is drawn at the same weight as the two state lines.

The grey and the alpha were tuned by eye on the maintainer's setup, where KWin's handling of a focused fullscreen game appears to wash the marker out; they are chosen to look right where compositing behaves and acceptable where it does not. Not investigated further.

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ADDED: A Show the status indicator setting under General > Appearance, on by
default; with it off the idle overlay is never mapped at all.
CHANGED: The halo around the marker's text is light grey rather than black.

- The globe behind it is dark whenever the mana is spent or fully reserved,
  which is exactly where a black outline disappeared.

CHANGED: The halo's per-stamp alpha is solved back through the compositing
rather than used directly.

- The eight stamps blend over one another instead of adding, so a visible halo
  pixel lands at 1-(1-s)^n for the n of three a straight glyph edge gets.

CHANGED: The update line is drawn at the same weight as the two state lines.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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