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Re: bad UI defaults
From: |
Dave Love |
Subject: |
Re: bad UI defaults |
Date: |
23 Apr 2003 17:49:29 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 |
Miles Bader <address@hidden> writes:
> On Thu, Apr 17, 2003 at 02:41:49PM +0100, Dave Love wrote:
> > I think are bad defaults.
> >
> > * The `mode-line-inactive' face is bright compared with `mode-line',
> > and different to the menu bar and scroll bar colours. That means
> > that with two windows -- my most common configuration -- the eye is
> > drawn to the wrong window.
>
> I disagree completely;
OK, `my eye', but I'm surprised if the cognitive effect is unique to
me.
> what makes something stand out is not
> lightness-versus-darkness, but _contrast_ -- the lighter inactive mode-line
> face is closer to the default background color of white, and thus stands out
> less than the darker active mode-line.
Well, the inactive mode line contrasts with the rest of the
frameworkery and has greater contrast within it. Whatever, I found
the effect disconcerting. Similarly for the changed behaviour of the
graphical mail indicator after the customizable prominence I
originally provided got removed.
> Note that if you use a black background, the brightness of the
> active/inactive mode-line faces are (essentially) swapped,
I assumed so, but I was just commenting on what I saw with largely
default settings of everything. (I should have said with sawfish
under X.)
Re: bad UI defaults, Dave Love, 2003/04/23
Re: bad UI defaults, Richard Stallman, 2003/04/18