[661] in Athena User Interface
Re: Color schemes
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Wed Jan 31 01:57:42 2001
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 01:57:31 -0500
Message-Id: <200101310657.BAA05668@egyptian-gods.MIT.EDU>
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: Bill Cattey <wdc@mit.edu>
CC: aui@mit.edu
In-reply-to: <AuQ8R49z0001IBBdlu@mit.edu>
> I think a black background is too damned dark.
> I think the default gnome blue background CLASHES with the
> color that the title bar goes when the window is active.
> White white for an xterm background may be too harsh. The
> very very light grey may have been chosen to improve readability!
> I think the above three judgements should be sanity checked
> with a bona fide graphic designer.
I got some insight from another friend today:
* He agreed that with a black background, things are just too
dark. (Not everyone holds this view, but it seems to be a
majority.)
* A light blue background does clash a bit with the active
eazel decorations, but a navy blue goes okay. See
/afs/dev.mit.edu/user/ghudson/desktop4.png for a sample.
* The presence of a white console window makes the off-white
gnome-terminal window look a bit dirty.
The console doesn't look all that bad with a light gray background
(see desktop5.png), although I think it would look a lot better if it
used gtk widgets. Maybe if I'm inspired I'll make that happen.
(Yes, I am doing technical work in addition to playing artist.)
