[2553] in Release_7.7_team
Color schemes
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Mon Jan 22 01:12:16 2001
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 01:12:08 -0500
Message-Id: <200101220612.BAA14200@egyptian-gods.MIT.EDU>
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: release-team@MIT.EDU, aui@MIT.EDU
We have a few decisions to make about colors for the new Athena
release. They boil down to, at a minimum:
* The background color (or image?) of the root window
* The console colors
* The default gnome-terminal colors
* The default zwgc colors
In /mit/ghudson/dev/desktop-[123].png you'll find (for a while,
anyway) an approximation of the current Athena default login and two
proposed new schemes, which differ only in the root background color.
Those examples don't include nautilus; if we incorporate nautilus and
start putting icons on the screen, we may need to move the initial
xterm from the left to the right.
Some personal observations:
* We can't really change the default zwgc color scheme; it
would break too many people's customizations.
* The current incarnation of console looks even uglier if you
change its colors.
* It's kind of disconcerting to have dark-against-light and
light-against-dark on the screen at the same time.
* But it isn't so disconcerting to have a black root
background and dark-against-light windows.
* White text on a black background is very sensitive to poor
convergence and other CRT flaws, although it looks fine on
an LCD or very sharp CRT display.
* beland has been using a solid white root window; that's a
little blinding. Even having a large solid white terminal
window is a little blinding.
So, I propose:
* We leave console and zwgc alone
* The root window is either black or gnome-default-blue (which
is probably also Windows-default-blue); I don't care which
* gnome-terminal defaults to black on gray (what it calls
"black on white").
