Increase Powerline glyph overlap #1419
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Description
[why]
We still fight with the faint lines on the big side of the powerline
glyphs. They come from the LCD antialiasing mode that has problems with
the borders.
Other fonts use far more overlap. We use only a modest amount of overlap
(2% of the width).
[how]
As the other fonts do, increase the overlap (to 7% now). We could not do
that before, because we had no full-height 'landing platforms' on the
outsides and so the triangle would look cut off at not 100% height.
Now with the landing platforms we can increase the overlap and still
have nice looking triangles that visibly reach the top and bottom of the
line.
Implement this only for the filled triangles to see how it goes.
Requirements / Checklist
What does this Pull Request (PR) do?
How should this be manually tested?
Any background context you can provide?
What are the relevant tickets (if any)?
Fixes #1245 (maybe, at least partially)
Screenshots (if appropriate or helpful)
left: before, right: after