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.

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.

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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