Slideshow Widget / Text Overlay - Overlay Inner and Text Shadow

[Banuk1616]

I've been experimenting with the Slideshow Widget for a few days now. It's a nice widget, but I think it could be improved a lot. It would be nice to be able to define the color of the overlay inner directly in the widget without having to write a custom.css.

Depending on the situation, a colored overlay inner is not the nicest and a shadow around the overlay text is nicer.

I have written a few lines in the custom.css to get the shadow around the overlay text:

.astroid-heading {
text-shadow: 2px 2px #000000;
}

.astroid-meta {
text-shadow: 2px 2px #000000;
}

This seems to work (but unfortunately the button text also gets a shadow) but again it would be great if you could define the shadow around the text directly in the slideshow widget without having to write custom.css.

With some shadow around the text, it is much easier to read if the image is not darkened.

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