ggplot legend slashes

Question

This must have annoyed someone in the past so excuse me if this is a duplicate and I will remove it. Slashes across legends when using geom_bar can be annoying

Answer 1

No that's what gives it it's outline. If you use a gray instead of white (with your trick) it's more distinguishable. You could also add background color to the legend to make it more distinguishable and keep it white. See the bottom of this page for more detail:

http://wiki.stdout.org/rcookbook/Graphs/Legends%20(ggplot2)/

i wish there were a less hackish way to do this.