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.
> >
> >
>

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