[2608] in Release_7.7_team
Re: Default background proposal
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Cattey)
Fri Feb 23 16:43:24 2001
Message-ID: <IuZhZmFz0001RmdXhw@mit.edu>
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 21:43:14 +0000 ()
From: Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
To: source-reviewers@MIT.EDU, Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
CC: aui@MIT.EDU, release-team@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <200102222311.SAA19663@egyptian-gods.MIT.EDU>
I'm beginning to think that the correct name for the color that a window
border gets when active should be "Clashes With Anything".
The Nautilus background in prushed_metal.png seems to succeed
at the difficult challenge of clashing with the panel color! Don't people
understand that you don't put a blue-grey next to a black-grey or red-grey?
The indigo looks a teeny bit "too electric".
So far the least objectionable background I've seen is the bluish speckle
in /mit/beland/aui-pics/default.gif.
Greg: Did we review the Crux-Teal theme?
I dunno what to suggest. I don't like the backgrounds, but I also don't
like my contributing to people spending too much time on them.
I see some merit to Beland's idea, " It's also not a bad idea to have
some visual cue that you're using Athena-Gnome and *not* vanilla Gnome,
since Athena magic makes will not work in other environments."
Although I expect we're going to be minimizing non-portable Athena magic.
-wdc
