Another thing I notice for Narcissus theme is
that it breaks the NSWindow -setBackgroundColor:
I assume it is because it uses image for background instead of color ?

Yen-Ju

On 8/19/07, Quentin Mathé <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Le 19 août 07 à 07:58, Yen-Ju Chen a écrit :
>
> > On 8/18/07, Jesse Ross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>> I add a theme for Azalea to match Narcissus (See screenshot).
> >>> I personally feel that for active window, the background is too
> >>> dark to see the black text.
> >>
> >> Yep -- that's one of the things that I'll be changing.
> >
> >   The other thing I notice is that the shadow is not obvious
> >   with gray border (title bar and resize bar) and dark background.
> >   But I guess it is hard to find a good balance.
>
> I have been surprised the border doesn't look better in gray, so I
> took a look to Mac OS X windows with Colorimeter utility. What I have
> found strikes me, Aqua windows have a very nice and subtle gray
> border because in fact they have no border at all. The border is a
> side-effect of the window shadow which is really well adjusted. If
> you look at the top line of the title bar, the shadow is only two
> pixels thick. The outermost pixel line is almost transparent, but the
> innermost pixel line is dark but has a little bit of transparency. We
> perceive this pixel line has a thin gray line.
>
> The other benefit of "no border approach" is to eliminate the pretty
> bad double-line effect visible with scrollers and any bordered
> controls put along the window border.
>
> Cheers,
> Quentin.
>
>

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