A Sunday 16 September 2007 12:58:38, Jos Poortvliet escreveu: > On 9/16/07, pinheiro wrote: > > A Friday 07 September 2007 18:00:07, Matthew Woehlke escreveu: > > > Matthew Woehlke wrote: > > > > Matthew Woehlke wrote: > > > >> I'm thinking I'd like to check in the following diff as a temporary > > > >> measure to get people thinking about active vs. inactive widget > > > >> states. > > > >> > > > >> This is a TEMPORARY change (things will be configurable in 4.0-final > > > >> as I've previously talked about; (1) for example), but will > > > >> hopefully help shake people out of the KDE3 way of thinking where it > > > >> was "ok" to not think about widget states w.r.t. the color scheme. > > > > > > > > Since I'm hearing complaints about the current situation (basically, > > > > when using oxygen, can't tell active/inactive apart), I'm going to > > > > commit this by Friday unless someone objects. > > > > > > Done, since no one objected. > > > > I dont, no one else did. > > But since a good image speack lowader that words....... > > http://www.nuno-icons.com/images/estilo/image4618.png > > the butons are faded off the text is greish on the tile bar removed the > > glow gradient from inactive, reduced the size of the shadow and the > > overal coloring is sutly difrent. > > I can't really see if you DID change the background, but if you did, I > really object to that. That's exactly what everyone here hates so > much, as it makes the whole window seem to flash. No matter how subtle > it is (unless it's so subtle you really can't see it, in which case it > makes no sense). it does if it is done right. you wont notce it profoundly couse the difrence is rather small so you will not see any flikering its a realy small diference. but your brain will, like your brain catches the sutle diferences in peoples faces that help you tell them all apart.. its a realy good feature of your brain that can be sed here to make sutle yet very visible ways of saying "I have changed" > You could dull some colourful things like the scrollbars and some > other widgets, maybe change the text a little. But NOT the background, > really. Don't do that. Just changing the windowdecoration like you did > is of course acceptable, I'm just not sure if that's enough visual > difference between active and inactive. It IS the least controversial > thing to do, though. > > > -- > > > > core oxygen icon designer -- core oxygen icon designer