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Nicolas Roard |
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Sat, 19 Feb 2005 01:55:22 +0000 |
Le 19 févr. 05, à 01:31, Jason Clouse a écrit :
On 2005-02-18 20:06:20 -0500 Charles Philip Chan <cpchan@sympatico.ca>
wrote:
I actually like the battleship grey- it is unobtrusive and allow me
to concentrate on my work.
I like it too. A lot of people are sickened by it. It turns them off.
I doubt it's because it's "grey". A *lot* of people (and I mean, not
just NeXT lovers, casual users) like the grey tonality, because with
it, the UI doesn't come in the way of the user. Having a gray tonality
is a good thing, particularly for graphics arts (because then your eye
isn't bothered with "wrong" colors).
That's why OSX is now much more greyer -- even if it's a bit too bright
to not be a bit annoying.
When people moan about GNUstep's UI, they don't really moan about the
grey. They moan about the ugly icons, the square widgets, etc. Most UI
have neutralized colors, ie a shade of gray (more or less bright).
That's a good thing.
GNUstep's grey could be seen as a bit too dark, but it's more a problem
of tuning your display than it's because it's "grey". With a wrong
gamma correction, the contrast is often a bit too high and thus it
looks a bit ugly.. The livecd includes an application to change your
gamma, which is quite handy to show that.
Personally, I think we should keep a grey tonality -- but I want better
icons (thanks to jesse, that starts to be a reality sonner than I
thought), and perhaps a bit of polishing of the widgets of the NeXT
theme. And of course I wouldn't mind a more modern-looking theme in
addition of the NeXT theme, but well, that's another story.. ;-)
But yes, the "base" gray is a bit too contrasted compared to the
highlight color on many displays; sure, you could say it's the display
fault (that would be true), but I think increasing slightly the
brightness of the base (window and control backgrounds) and shadow
colors would help a bit (see backbone's screenshots, even if they are
perhaps a bit too bright, it's the idea..)
--
Nicolas Roard
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
-Arthur C. Clarke
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