Oh wow thanks Marcel!

Yes, much better.

The flexibility of the themes is impressive.


On Thu, Jan 13, 2022 at 3:11 AM Marcel Taeumel <marcel.taeumel at hpi.de> wrote:
>
> Hi Chris --
>
> Fixed in System-mt.1282. Please test via "UserInterfaceTheme cleanUpAndReset". If it looks as expected, we can add an entry to the update map.
>
> Best,
> Marcel
>
> Am 13.01.2022 09:57:22 schrieb Marcel Taeumel <marcel.taeumel at hpi.de>:
>
> Hi Chris --
>
> It looks like the affected UI themes are:
> - Community (dark)
> - Solarized (light)
> - Solarized (dark)
>
> I am not sure that we can do anything for the Solarized themes because those are low-contrast by definition. But we surely can fix the Community theme.
>
> Best,
> Marcel
>
> Am 13.01.2022 09:51:28 schrieb Marcel Taeumel <marcel.taeumel at hpi.de>:
>
> Hi Chris --
>
> I will look into this. Thanks for the report. :-) The fix will likely not be in PluggableTextMorphPlus but in the UI theme's property. Maybe a new one.
>
> > I just wish it weren't so prominent.
>
> Beware of different monitors. There are several displays out there that cannot show gray scales that accurate. Making it too vague would render it invisible on those monitors. Yet, I am sure that we can improve it a little bit more.
>
> Best,
> Marcel
>
> Am 13.01.2022 07:20:33 schrieb Chris Muller <asqueaker at gmail.com>:
>
> Hi Marcel, hi all,
>
> As a user-friendly UI feature, I really like the field help in the backgrounds of text fields, however I continue to find its intensity distracting.  It seems like it should just be a "whisper" of a hint, very light in the background.  The way it is, it sometimes looks as if it were actually the entered value.
>
> I tried to set the color to a lower alpha value to accomplish this, but it didn't seem to have any effect at all on the color (until I reached < 0.01, at which point it disappeared entirely).
>
> If text cannot be rendered there with a lower opacity, it could at least match the #comment color of the selected theme.  It essentially serves the same purpose as a comment.  In the Community Dark theme, that color is quite subtle, so it works.
>
> I like the feature, I really don't want to turn off the preference, I just wish it weren't so prominent.  Would love your hear your thoughts.
>
>  - Chris
>
> On Thu, Jan 13, 2022 at 12:06 AM <commits at source.squeak.org> wrote:
>>
>> Chris Muller uploaded a new version of ToolBuilder-Morphic to project The Inbox:
>> http://source.squeak.org/inbox/ToolBuilder-Morphic-cmm.285.mcz
>>
>> ==================== Summary ====================
>>
>> Name: ToolBuilder-Morphic-cmm.285
>> Author: cmm
>> Time: 13 January 2022, 12:06:18.53413 am
>> UUID: fdfc0020-4e12-4f5c-a2bc-f632794ce0c3
>> Ancestors: ToolBuilder-Morphic-mt.284
>>
>> Render field help text in the color used for comments.
>>
>> =============== Diff against ToolBuilder-Morphic-mt.284 ===============
>>
>> Item was changed:
>>   ----- Method: PluggableTextMorphPlus>>drawBalloonTextOn: (in category 'drawing') -----
>>   drawBalloonTextOn: aCanvas
>>         "Show balloon text in the text morph if it has no contents."
>>         textMorph contents ifNotEmpty: [ ^ self ].
>>         ([ self balloonText ]
>>                 on: Error
>>                 do: [ : err | 'error in balloonText' ]) ifNotNil:
>>                 [ : text | aCanvas
>>                         drawString: text
>>                         in: (self innerBounds insetBy: (5 @ 2 corner: 0 @ 0))
>>                         font: (self userInterfaceTheme balloonTextFont ifNil: [TextStyle defaultFont])
>> +                       color: ((self userInterfaceTheme get: #comment for: SHTextStylerST80) first ifNil: [Color gray darker]) ]!
>> -                       color: (self userInterfaceTheme balloonTextColor ifNil: [Color gray: 0.7]) ]!
>>
>>
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