Actually if the focused (dark) and unfocused (bright) theme is swapped, it looks good. So the brightness becomes: focused (bright) > unfocus (dark) > non-response (translucent).
Yen-Ju On 8/20/07, Yen-Ju Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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. > > > > > _______________________________________________ Etoile-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/etoile-dev
