I have several thoughts:<br>
<br>
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 *<span style="font-weight: bold;">every</span>*
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.<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
<br>
John<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/10/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Chris Muller</b> <<a href="mailto:chris@funkyobjects.org">chris@funkyobjects.org</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
> What I would love is to have another color than the pale green one<br>> for the browser.<br>> May be having a simpler color scheme would help unifying the look. I<br>> liked blue/orange<br><br>May we not hard-code any more colors though, please? Everyone has different
<br>preferences on colors, and no system I know today offers the user full<br>flexibility on color-schemes, but they should.<br><br>The work I did with "inverteBright" took us a step closer to elimination of<br>
several hard-coded colors by instead asking Preferences. Unfortunately, I<br>received not one feedback in two attempts to ask about inverteBright. Not even<br>an aesthetic comment about the screenshot<br><br> <a href="http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak/5729">
http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak/5729</a><br><br>which shows how nice it is to use the #textHighlightColor as the color for list<br>and menu selections too. It's quite nice that anything "selected" by the user
<br>indicates its selection with a consistent color.<br><br>A private email to John Pierce about all this is what sparked the huge<br>"LookEnhancements enhancement" thread last month and the whole idea of its<br>
inclusion in base 3.9.<br><br>So here is a third and final attempt.. Anyone?<br><br><br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>It's easy to have a complicated idea. It's very very hard to have a simple idea. -- Carver Mead