On 10/12/12 2:23 PM, Ariel Constenla-Haile wrote: > On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 11:45:25AM +0200, Jürgen Schmidt wrote: >> On 10/12/12 11:24 AM, Joost Andrae wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>>> Examples: >>>> http://people.apache.org/~jsc/test/aoo_new_defautl_background.png >>>> http://people.apache.org/~jsc/test/aoo_new_defautl_background2.png >>>> >>>> I know that probably many have an opinion about the color. But more >>>> important for now is the question if we want such a change in general. >>>> In the end the color should fit to other branding items as well. >>>> >>>> UX has probably some comments and feedback here as well? >>>> >>> >>> how about to make this background configurable ? >> >> it is already ;-) See Tools->Options->Appearance->Application >> background. I am talking about a new default only and fixing the start >> center problem. > > The start center ignores the Appearance configuration (something like > svtools::ColorConfig().GetColorValue(svtools::APPBACKGROUND).nColor) and > uses instead the "workspace gradient", see > framework::BackingWindow::Paint() in > trunk/main/framework/source/services/backingwindow.hxx|cxx > > The default is defined in trunk/main/vcl/inc/vcl/settings.hxx > > #define DEFAULT_WORKSPACE_GRADIENT_START_COLOR Color( 0xa3, 0xae, 0xb8 ) > #define DEFAULT_WORKSPACE_GRADIENT_END_COLOR Color( 0x73, 0x7e, 0x88 ) > > > and set in void ImplStyleData::SetStandardStyles() > main/vcl/source/app/settings.cxx > > In dark themes it is set to black, see > void Window::ImplUpdateGlobalSettings( AllSettings& rSettings, sal_Bool > bCallHdl ) > in main/vcl/source/window/window.cxx > > It looks like playing with this should take also into account high > contrast / dark themes, because leaving the default app. background in > the Tools dialog makes the background change accordingly. That said, AOO > look really horrible in dark themes, but that's another issue :)
I agree but that is indeed another issue. And complete and consistently working themes would be very nice. For me it looked simply wrong and inconsistent that when I changed the application background the background of start center didn't changed as well. Juergen > > > Regards >
