New edition of LookEnhancements
stéphane ducasse
ducasse at iam.unibe.ch
Sun Sep 11 11:38:11 UTC 2005
On 11 sept. 05, at 05:53, John Pierce wrote:
> I have several thoughts:
>
> 1. Contrary to popular opinion, I happen to like the varied colors
> of the Squeak windows. They have grown on me over the years and are
> a pleasant departure from the drab blue or gray colors of *every*
> window in most other platforms. I think it even helps me locate my
> code editor without having to read titlebar text. I just look for
> the green window and away I go.
sure but could we have better color than pale green and pink, purple
as default.
> 2. I think colors of windows should probably not be hard-coded but
> more preference oriented as suggested. That would allow things like
> InvertBrite to be just a favorite array of color preferences.
Yes.
> 3. I don't seem to have the same reaction to windows with white
> backgrounds in low ambient settings, so InvertBright doesn't become
> very useful to me. This is just my own preference as other's may
> experience sensitivities to bright backgrounds in low ambient
> settings. It just doesn't seem to bother me so I have not bothered
> to comment on InvertBrite -- although I see how it could be useful
> to some.
>
> Regards,
>
> John
>
> On 9/10/05, Chris Muller <chris at funkyobjects.org> wrote: > What I
> would love is to have another color than the pale green one
> > for the browser.
> > May be having a simpler color scheme would help unifying the look. I
> > liked blue/orange
>
> May we not hard-code any more colors though, please? Everyone has
> different
> preferences on colors, and no system I know today offers the user full
> flexibility on color-schemes, but they should.
>
> The work I did with "inverteBright" took us a step closer to
> elimination of
> several hard-coded colors by instead asking Preferences.
> Unfortunately, I
> received not one feedback in two attempts to ask about
> inverteBright. Not even
> an aesthetic comment about the screenshot
>
> http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak/5729
>
> which shows how nice it is to use the #textHighlightColor as the
> color for list
> and menu selections too. It's quite nice that anything "selected"
> by the user
> indicates its selection with a consistent color.
>
> A private email to John Pierce about all this is what sparked the huge
> "LookEnhancements enhancement" thread last month and the whole idea
> of its
> inclusion in base 3.9.
>
> So here is a third and final attempt.. Anyone?
>
>
>
>
>
> --
> It's easy to have a complicated idea. It's very very hard to have a
> simple idea. -- Carver Mead
>
>
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