straw-man 3.2 default preferences

Scott Wallace scott.wallace at squeakland.org
Fri Apr 19 05:49:23 UTC 2002


At 1:05 AM -0400 4/19/02, Doug Way wrote:

>One way to mitigate the color overload somewhat would be to change 
>the window pane background colors back to white, so that only the 
>borders are colored.  This would be easy to do in time for 3.2, 
>whereas something more drastic such as a little colored icon/area 
>may require more thought (and may not reach agreement in time ;) ). 
>The white background could actually be a preference, turned on by 
>default.  (Maybe I'll take a quick hack at this.)

How does this suggestion differ from Andreas's "alternativeWindowLook?"


>On another note, I did notice one oddity in Scott's list after 
>trying out the preferences.  collapseWindowsInPlace is turned on, 
>which I don't think has been the case for images up 'til now.  This 
>is probably only favored by Mac users (and only pre-OSX Mac), since 
>that's the only platform which has similar behavior, I think.  So we 
>may want to turn that off, I don't know.

Yes, well the list had one or two things like that snuck into it just 
to see if anyone was paying attention ;-).  Now let's see if anyone 
else notices the other one or two, or however many it was, 
eyebrow-raisers.

   -- Scott




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